Wisconsin · Nonprofit
VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,500 to it, the largest being MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ($839,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $847k
- Net assets
- $0
What Vision Forward Association Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the vision forward association foundation is to serve as a vehicle for raising and managing funding used to support programs that serve and benefit individuals dealing with blindness or vision impairment and their families.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Fiduciary responsibility: the foundation seeks out, protects, and manages the cumulative fund-raising assets that it has acquired over the years to be used to support programs that serve and benefit individuals dealing with blindness or vision impairment and their families. These funds, which primarily consist of reserves acquired through donations and planned gifts, are held in trust by the vision forward association foundation.assurance of continuing mission: projections are that the population of people with vision loss in southeastern wisconsin will triple over the next 25 years. The foundation was set up to ensure adequate resources to sustain current programming that serves and benefits individuals dealing with blindness or vision impairment and their families and to support future efforts to expand programs to meet the increasing demand for services in southeastern wisconsin.effective march 31, 2021, the foundation was merged with vision forward association, incorporated (the association) with the association being the surviving entity.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
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 $5.7M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $86k → $85k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’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
VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $839k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vision Forward Association Incorporated · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION 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 VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,500 to it, the largest being MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ($839,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $846,500 in grants to VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $839,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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