California · Nonprofit
SEVA FOUNDATION
SEVA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 202 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,345,631 to it, the largest being FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ($6,524,164). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 202
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Seva Foundation does
Mission
Seva Foundation partners worldwide to create self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight. Our vision is a world free of avoidable blindness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sight services & restoration programseva is a global nonprofit eye care organization that transforms lives by restoring sight and preventing blindness. Since 1978, seva has provided sight-saving surgeries, eyeglasses, medicine, and other eye care services to 72million people in underserved communities around the world.globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a vision impairment, and of these, over 1.1 billion people have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. Our programs have been instrumental in making eye care available to those who can't afford it. They are driven by 4 pillars - establishing self-sustaining vision centers, eye care for children, bringing the best in technology, and training & job creation.towards this aim, seva works with 150+ partner hospitals around the world to strengthen the capacity of local hospitals and develop sustainable eye care programs with long-term impactduring this report year, seva's network of programs and partners provided eye care services to 7,652,042 people (more than 50% women and girls) and 998,786 sight saving surgeries. In addition, 69,450 children received eyeglasses. In asia, seva made eye…
$12,434,151 spentof which $7,438,894 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,434,151.
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 2021 to 2022, from $39M to $36M (−8%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SEVA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Kathleen Moynihan
Executive director
Board chair
Mariano Yee
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 94 funders, grant income rose $437k → $3.7M.
39 of 202 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SEVA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 202 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
SEVA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 SEVA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 18% · 2019 17% · 2020 33% · 2021 52% · 2022 28% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of SEVA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
65% of SEVA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
SEVA FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 32 funders to 94 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SEVA FOUNDATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEVA 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 SEVA FOUNDATION?
- SEVA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 202 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,345,631 to it, the largest being FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ($6,524,164). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEVA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 202 organizations giving $22,345,631 in grants to SEVA FOUNDATION, 117 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEVA FOUNDATION?
- FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,524,164 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEVA FOUNDATION 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.
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 202 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