New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE SEEING EYE INC
THE SEEING EYE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 444 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,208,585 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,630,542). 298 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 444
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $449M
What The Seeing Eye Inc does
Mission
Help blind people achieve greater independence through seeing eye dogs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing seeing eye dogs to blind and visually impaired : this program includes : breeding and whelping of appropriate sized and type of dog at our breeding facility; approximately fourteen months socialization of the puppies at homes of volunteer puppy raisers; mainenance of a veterinary hospital and kennels; support of research, training and development projects related to prolonging and improving the working life of guide dogs; four-month training of dogs by professional instructors; screening, selection of applicants; arranging for the round trip travel of our students to and from our training facility; provision of lodging, food and counselling services to our students during their 18 to 25 days of training in the proper use of their seeing eye dog; and after-care support for the life of the student/seeing eye dog partnership.
$26,445,912 spent$176,041 earned by the program95% of program spendingPublic and information services: through this program we disseminate information to promote greater public understanding and wider acceptance in society for blind individuals accompanied by trained guide dogs, through the use of social media, television, radio, films, exhibits, books, magazines, seminars and newspapers. These program services also include distribution of information helpful to people who are blind or visually impaired.
$1,407,082 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,852,994.
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 2023 to 2024, from $407M to $471M (+16%).
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.
51% of THE SEEING EYE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 113 funders to 210 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $4.5M.
46 of 444 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 THE SEEING EYE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 444 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
THE SEEING EYE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
28% 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 THE SEEING EYE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 34% · 2019 33% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 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
54% of THE SEEING EYE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
THE SEEING EYE INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
THE SEEING EYE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE SEEING EYE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $390k on record.
- TRUST FUND$386k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$4k
- FEDERAL$21
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE SEEING EYE 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SEEING EYE 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 THE SEEING EYE INC?
- THE SEEING EYE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 444 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,208,585 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,630,542). 298 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SEEING EYE INC have?
- IRS filings report 444 organizations giving $33,208,585 in grants to THE SEEING EYE INC, 298 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SEEING EYE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,630,542 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SEEING EYE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 444 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