Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Prevent Blindness Wisconsin
Prevent Blindness Wisconsin (Wisconsin) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,423,797 to it, the largest being NICHOLAS FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($705,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $967k
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Prevent Blindness Wisconsin does
Mission
we prevent blindness and preserve sight
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Service-Prevent Blindness Wisconsins vision screening program harnesses the collective efforts of volunteers and thousands of partners to support vision health for hundreds of thousands of children across the state. Certified vision screenings detect children and adults with potential vision problems and refer them to further vision care; early detection and treatment of vision problems improves treatment outcomes, prevents permanent vision loss, and ensures children have healthy vision for school success.
$668,340 spent79% of program spendingPublic Health Education-Prevent Blindness Wisconsin provides public education to teach the general public about vision health topics, such as: the importance of healthy vision,common vision problems with their signs,vision safety, the prevention of eye disease, and how to access vision care. Vision health education is provided through presentations to parents, educators, community groups, and others; mass media advertising, including local publications; distribution of Prevent Blindness Wisconsin educational materials; the Prevent Blindness Wisconsin website and more. We also work to improve access to vision care by providing follow-up resources county specific vision care provider guides.
$69,636 spent8% of program spendingProfessional Education and Training-Prevent Blindness Wisconsin builds local vision screening infrastructure and makes vision health a priority in communities across Wisconsin through Professional Education and Vision Screener Training. Vision Screener Trainings certify volunteers and partners to provide vision screening for three years using the most up-to-date visionscreening support as well as vision health education and resources to move individuals to further care after a failed vision screening.
$108,640 spent$10,935 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $846,616.
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 $1.0M to $1.5M (+53%).
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 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 3% · 2024 5%. 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.
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
Tami Garcia
President & CEO
Board chair
Jeff McClellan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $242k → $540k.
13 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Wisconsin’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 Wisconsin has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
53% 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 Wisconsin.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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
54% of Prevent Blindness Wisconsin's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
77% of Prevent Blindness Wisconsin's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $570k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin
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
75%
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 Wisconsin: 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 Wisconsin?
- Prevent Blindness Wisconsin (Wisconsin) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,423,797 to it, the largest being NICHOLAS FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($705,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prevent Blindness Wisconsin have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $3,423,797 in grants to Prevent Blindness Wisconsin, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prevent Blindness Wisconsin?
- NICHOLAS FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $705,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prevent Blindness Wisconsin find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 58 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