California · Nonprofit
Prevent Blindness Northern California
Prevent Blindness Northern California (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being HOEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $556k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $993k
What Prevent Blindness Northern California does
Mission
Prevent Blindness Northern California PBNC exists to screen for vision problems in pre-school aged children in the Bay Area, to connect and provide them with better vision care, and to improve their ability to learn and grow.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
SEE WELL TO LEARN - As Prevent Blindness Northern Californias flagship program, established in 2012, See Well to Learn employs an innovative, school based approach to accurately detect vision problems among low-income preschoolers throughout the Bay Area, at no cost to the students. The focus is on ensuring children receive the care they need for vision correction so they can enter kindergarten ready to learn and socially prepared for academic success. The program has served almost 53,000 low income preschoolers since 2012. See Well to Learn has 6 major components: Step 1: Vision Screening Services: Vision screening is performed by a certified vision screener at preschool sites, using advanced, scientifically validated screening technology with a device known as an Autorefractor. Step 2: Certified Eye Exams: Comprehensive eye exams are given for those children that fail the autorefractive Step 1 screening. Exams are performed onsite, at the schools onboard the Eye Bus by a licensed optometrist who is experienced at working with preschoolers. Step 3: Referrals to Advanced Vision Care: If necessary, for more serious vision conditions, connections are made to pediatric ophthalmology…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $1.0M (−41%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 17%. 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 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Prevent Blindness Northern California’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
Prevent Blindness Northern California leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Prevent Blindness Northern California's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Prevent Blindness Northern California
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Prevent Blindness · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Prevent Blindness Northern California: 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 Prevent Blindness Northern California?
- Prevent Blindness Northern California (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being HOEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prevent Blindness Northern California have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to Prevent Blindness Northern California, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prevent Blindness Northern California?
- HOEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prevent Blindness Northern California find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing