New York · Nonprofit
READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION
READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $67 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($67). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $67
- Net assets
- $14M
What Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation does
Mission
See schedule oReader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation is dedicated to fostering the independence of people who are blind and visually impaired. We believe in an accessible and inclusive world where people who are blind and visually impaired have the tools, resources, and opportunity to lead independent and fulfilling lives. Through our support of non-profit organizations that share this philosophy, we are making the world more accessible to navigate for thousands of people every day.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation provides valuable financial assistance to organizations that directly support individuals who are blind or visually impaired. This crucial aid empowers these organizations to cater to people of all ages and diverse stages of vision loss by offering comprehensive training in essential skills like daily activities, orientation and mobility training, assistive technology, guide dog usage, low vision rehabilitation, literacy, and braille. Moreover, the foundation extends its generous support to organizations offering career development, vocational training, recreational activities, and youth transitioning programs for blind and visually impaired persons. Rdpfs also lends a helping hand by engaging in outreach to low-vision organizations.rdpfs has a thorough grant proposal and outcome evaluation process, which helps ensure the success of the funded programs. In fiscal year 2025, rdpfs approved 6 grants to key organizations across the united states in the first half of the year before pausing to re-evaluate grantmaking strategy. Grant monies were designated for the following programs: launch an assessment protocol for cerebral cortical…
$414,384 spentof which $282,500 as grants59% of program spendingIn fy 2025, the rdpfs extensive print publishing program significantly catered to the needs of 30,944 individuals through its "fiction favorites large print (formerly select editions large type) periodical. A total of 141,774 volumes were distributed to subscribers, ensuring they had access to engaging reading material tailored for ease of reading for those with low vision. In addition to the prominent print periodical, subscribers received a large print calendar with essential information on accessing low-vision services. By offering content formatted and printed to specific accessibility standards, the program is committed to empowering individuals with low vision, ensuring they can enjoy reading and stay informed in a way that fulfills their unique needs.
$286,199 spent$247,017 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $700,583.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $16M (+26%).
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.
18% of READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Soja Orlowski
Executive director
Board chair
Matthew Krieger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $50.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION: 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 READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION?
- READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $67 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($67). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $67 in grants to READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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