Texas · Nonprofit
Prevent Blindness Texas
Prevent Blindness Texas (Texas) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,698,472 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ($752,260). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Prevent Blindness Texas does
Mission
to prevent blindness and preserve sight through education, certified vision screening and training, advocacy, research and community and patient service programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public Education - informing the general public about the basic facts of eye care, health and safety, and motivating them to appropriate action; conducted through mass media such as television, radio, newspapers, magazines and films, through the distribution of Prevent Blindness publications and through responses to phone and written inquiries from the public. Over 22,000 persons participated in health education programs and received information and referral services.
$707,364 spent69% of program spendingCommunity Service - sponsoring and promoting screening programs for the early detection of signs of eye trouble among preschool children, school age children, and adults, particularly amblyopia in children and glaucoma and AMD in adults. Screening were provided for 31,500 persons last year.
$308,591 spent30% of program spendingProfessional Education & Training - serving as an authoritative source of information on the latest developments in vision and eye care so that eye care professionals, nurses, scientists, teachers, social workers, and others in the field of blindness prevention can better serve their respective clients. 1,200 attended professional education symposia.
$12,686 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,028,641.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $2.8M (+16%).
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 2% · 2022 40% · 2023 10% · 2024 13% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Heather Patrick
President & CEO
Board chair
Misha Syed
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $206k → $376k.
5 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Prevent Blindness Texas’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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 Texas has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 Prevent Blindness Texas.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 22% · 2019 35% · 2020 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 12% · 2023 20% — 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
48% of Prevent Blindness Texas's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
57% of Prevent Blindness Texas's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Prevent Blindness Texas
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Prevent Blindness Texas: 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 Texas?
- Prevent Blindness Texas (Texas) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,698,472 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ($752,260). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prevent Blindness Texas have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $2,698,472 in grants to Prevent Blindness Texas, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prevent Blindness Texas?
- NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS is the largest funder on record, with $752,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prevent Blindness Texas find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 56 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