Texas · Nonprofit
SIGHT ORG
SIGHT ORG (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,657 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($153,067). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $634k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $394k
- Net assets
- $189k
What Sight Org does
Mission
Sight.org exists to proclaim the gospel to the most unserved regions of Africa by combating blindness through surgery and prevention.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
SIGHT-RESTORING SURGERIES (Medical Program) In 2024, Sight.org's full-time African medical team performed 1,360 sight-restoring surgeries for individuals blinded by cataracts, pterygium, and strabismus in rural Togo, West Africa. All surgeries were provided free of charge to patients living in extreme poverty with no access to hospital-based care. Since 2012, Sight.org has completed more than 10,000 surgeries and trained 36 African doctors in Manual Small-Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS).
$389,898 spent91% of program spendingAGRICULTURAL AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM (Community Program) Sight.org continued development of its agricultural and rehabilitation initiative, transitioning it from a training platform to a refuge for individuals who are ostracized, displaced, or in crisis. The farm provides food security, employment opportunities, and community restoration while long-term infrastructure is established. Although agriculture remains central, the program's primary purpose is now to serve the physical, spiritual, and economic needs of vulnerable individuals in Togo.
$13,302 spent3% of program spendingEVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIP OUTREACH (Ministry Program) Each medical campaign includes a ministry component where Sight.org's Togolese team shares the gospel of Jesus Christ with patients and surrounding villages. Many patients come from voodoo or Islamic backgrounds and believe blindness results from spiritual curses. When sight is restored, these beliefs are often replaced with faith and hope. In 2024, the gospel was shared with over 7,400 individuals, and ministry teams continued follow-up discipleship and church-planting efforts in villages previously unreached by the gospel.
$24,995 spent6% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $428,195.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $150k to $258k (+72%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SIGHT ORG’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
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
Lewis Swann
Executive Director
Board chair
Ryan Peterson
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $48k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SIGHT ORG’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
SIGHT ORG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 SIGHT ORG.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 56% · 2019 60% · 2020 39% · 2021 43% · 2022 57% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of SIGHT ORG's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
73% of SIGHT ORG'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. Of the $107k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SIGHT ORG has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SIGHT ORG
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIGHT ORG: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SIGHT ORG?
- SIGHT ORG (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,657 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($153,067). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SIGHT ORG have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $393,657 in grants to SIGHT ORG, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIGHT ORG?
- EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $153,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIGHT ORG 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.
Play a game about who funds Sight Org →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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