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THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA

THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,176 to it, the largest being Erie Community Foundation ($573,530). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%

Against its field

THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($704k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 118 ($829k) Expenses 98 ($983k) Net assets 94 ($3.8M)2019 Revenue 142 ($998k) Expenses 107 ($1.1M) Net assets 92 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 100 ($704k) Expenses 104 ($1.0M) Net assets 81 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 111 ($783k) Expenses 95 ($953k) Net assets 86 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 177 ($1.2M) Expenses 103 ($1.0M) Net assets 82 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 128 ($900k) Expenses 115 ($1.1M) Net assets 79 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 189 ($1.3M) Expenses 109 ($1.1M) Net assets 88 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 167 ($1.2M) Expenses 111 ($1.1M) Net assets 90 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (111)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 18% · 2023 29% · 2024 22% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$299k
17
$154k
18
$79k
19
$341k
20
$171k
21
$214k
22
$250k
23
$233k
24
$59k
25
0.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $290k → $139k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)42% 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 SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA’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

THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

63% 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 SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

37%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 55% · 2019 45% · 2020 42% · 2021 46% · 2022 29% · 2023 51%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

75% of THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

81% of THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $648k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 19%Fundraising 12%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA?
THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,176 to it, the largest being Erie Community Foundation ($573,530). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,542,176 in grants to THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA?
Erie Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $573,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing