California · Nonprofit
THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION
THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $39,658 to it, the largest being ALCON CARES INC ($39,658). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $281k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $35k
What The Blindness Foundation does
Mission
A charitable foundation for treating blindness in south east asia through education, training, medical supplies and research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Treating blindness in south east asia through education, training, medical supplies and research.
$236,647 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2022 to 2023, from $18k to $39k (+118%).
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.
99% of THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BLINDNESS 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BLINDNESS 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 THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION?
- THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $39,658 to it, the largest being ALCON CARES INC ($39,658). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $39,658 in grants to THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION?
- ALCON CARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,658 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BLINDNESS 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 1 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