Alabama · Nonprofit
SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC
SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,381,321 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($1,549,359). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Sight Savers of America Inc does
Mission
To identify and secure treatment for unmet vision and health needs that impede a individual's ability to reach their full potential in school and in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sight savers america (ssa) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying and securing essential eye care needs for children and adults, from a child's first pair of eyeglasses to extensive sight-saving treatment and high-tech vision aids for individuals with severe visual impairment. Serving 16 states, ssa fulfills its mission through three core programs: the eye care program, low vision & blindness program, and screening program. Ssa operates with a board of trustees, a staff of 40, and a nationwide network of more than 1,300 eye care professionals who often discount or donate services to support ssa programs. Through partnerships with local communities, schools, healthcare providers, state agencies, and other organizations, ssa reduces health disparities by ensuring individuals have access to essential vision services, treatments, and assistive technology.the eye care program identifies and addresses unmet eye care needs among children following failed school vision screenings or referrals from community partners, school staff, medical professionals, and family members. Once referred, each child receives individualized case management to ensure access to a…
$4,273,371 spent$2,541,729 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,273,371.
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 $2.1M to $2.3M (+12%).
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 10% · 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC’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. 1 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
Dawn Decarlo Od Ms Msph
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $534k → $1.5M.
17 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 SAVERS OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
49% 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 SAVERS OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 29% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% — 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
60% of SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SAVERS OF AMERICA INC's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 46 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: 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 SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC?
- SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,381,321 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($1,549,359). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $9,381,321 in grants to SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,549,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 92 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