Missouri · Nonprofit
SAVING KIDSIGHT
SAVING KIDSIGHT (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,009,641 to it, the largest being Foundation Saving Sight ($1,380,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $499k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $359k
What Saving Kidsight does
Mission
Saving Kidsight's mission is to prevent vision conditions and promote healthy eyesight in children. The organization offers children's vision screenings at daycares, preschools, schools and community events. After every screening, kidsight provides dedicated follow-up services for families of children who are referred for potential vision disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Saving Kidsight (the organization), provides a mobile vision screening program that goes into daycares, preschools, schools, and community events. Children are screened for serious vision disorders, amblyopia and strabismus, which can lead to significant visual impairment if left untreated, as well as other more common vision disorders. After detection, kidsight provides intervention and referrals through the kidsight vision care network. The vision care network answers questions that parents may have about the screening, and can aid them with finding an eye doctor, navigating the health care system and locating financial assistance. The organization is affiliated with the missouri lions md26, but maintains separate bylaws and its own board of directors.
$161,964 spent$16,334 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $161,964.
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 2024 to 2025, from $137k to $372k (+171%).
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.
97% of SAVING KIDSIGHT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Melissa Stephenson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $794k → $133k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SAVING KIDSIGHT’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
SAVING KIDSIGHT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 SAVING KIDSIGHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 69% · 2021 60% · 2022 66% · 2023 61% — 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
20% of SAVING KIDSIGHT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
94% of SAVING KIDSIGHT's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k 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.
Against its field
SAVING KIDSIGHT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAVING KIDSIGHT
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVING KIDSIGHT: 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 SAVING KIDSIGHT?
- SAVING KIDSIGHT (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,009,641 to it, the largest being Foundation Saving Sight ($1,380,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVING KIDSIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,009,641 in grants to SAVING KIDSIGHT, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVING KIDSIGHT?
- Foundation Saving Sight is the largest funder on record, with $1,380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVING KIDSIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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