Florida · Nonprofit
SIGHTLIFE
SIGHTLIFE (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,975,293 to it, the largest being VIJAY AND MARIE GORADIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,075,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What Sightlife does
Mission
We serve as a global leader and partner to eliminate corneal blindness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In august 2022, lions world vision institute (lwvi) obtained control of Sightlife through a reorganization of Sightlife's governance structure. This reorganization gave lwvi the ability to appoint a majority of the voting members of Sightlife. There was no consideration paid as part of the acquisition. At july 1, 2023, Sightlife transferred all net assets of the organization to lwvi and ceased primary operations. All expenses of Sightlife for the year ended june 30, 2024, including payroll, were incurred and paid by lwvi on their behalf.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
In august 2022, lions world vision institute (lwvi) obtained control of Sightlife through a reorganization of Sightlife's governance structure. This reorganization gave lwvi the ability to appoint a majority of the voting members of Sightlife. There was no consideration paid as part of the acquisition. At july 1, 2023, Sightlife transferred all net assets of the organization to lwvi and ceased primary operations. All expenses of Sightlife for the year ended june 30, 2024, including payroll, were incurred and paid by lwvi on their behalf.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.7M to $27M (+205%).
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 1% · 2021 14% · 2023 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SIGHTLIFE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Douglass E Pace
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $232k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northwest Lions Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money SIGHTLIFE raised.
From the IRS filings of SIGHTLIFE’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
SIGHTLIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 95% · 2019 89% · 2020 34% · 2021 47% · 2022 42% · 2023 60% — 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
58% of SIGHTLIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
SIGHTLIFE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $609k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SIGHTLIFE has grown faster than half of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SIGHTLIFE
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Northwest Lions Endowment · exempt
- Lions World Vision Institute · exempt
- Leitr Sightlife Holding Company Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIGHTLIFE: 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 SIGHTLIFE?
- SIGHTLIFE (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,975,293 to it, the largest being VIJAY AND MARIE GORADIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,075,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIGHTLIFE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $5,975,293 in grants to SIGHTLIFE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIGHTLIFE?
- VIJAY AND MARIE GORADIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIGHTLIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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