Florida · Nonprofit
Preserve Vision Florida Inc
Preserve Vision Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,131 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ($503,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $846k
- Net assets
- $172k
What Preserve Vision Florida Inc does
Mission
To promote healthy vision through vision health awareness and education for all ages, vision screenings for children and adults, assistance to obtain medical eye care, and advocacy for vision and medical eye care health services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Preserve Vision Floridas mission is to promote a lifetime of healthy vision care through vision screenings, eye health education, and referral services. These services include personal consultations regarding eye health concerns as well as assistance in navigating our network of community partners. We provide financial assistance for eye exams and prescription glasses, as well as for eye surgeries. Our vision programs help preschoolers at risk of vision loss from childhood eye diseases, school children who depend on good vision for learning, and adults threatened by glaucoma and other serious vision problems. Screened over 18,000 children and adults, provided eye exams and glasses for those who could not afford them. The Organization also provides education on vision screening which leads to certification, Preserve Vision is a reputable source for health care professionals such as teachers, nurses, doctors, social workers, health education students and others seeking to implement vision screenings. The training provided by Preserve Vision is supported by the work of optometrists and ophthalmologists. Educating these future vision screeners helps build a network of trained…
$1,217,644 spent$300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,217,644.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $291k to $488k (+68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 59% · 2022 71% · 2023 58% · 2024 74% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joanne Lighter
President & CEO
Board chair
Kevin Bakewell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $125k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Preserve Vision Florida Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Preserve Vision Florida Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Preserve Vision Florida Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 38% · 2019 41% · 2020 70% · 2021 48% · 2022 47% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of Preserve Vision Florida Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of Preserve Vision Florida Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding Preserve Vision Florida Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72k on record.
- CONTRACTED SERVICES - OTHER $69k
- MEDICAL SERVICES - GENERAL $3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Preserve Vision Florida Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Preserve Vision Florida Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Preserve Vision Florida Inc?
- Preserve Vision Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,131 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ($503,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Preserve Vision Florida Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $846,131 in grants to Preserve Vision Florida Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Preserve Vision Florida Inc?
- UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC is the largest funder on record, with $503,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Preserve Vision Florida Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing