Minnesota · Nonprofit
VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC
VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,144 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($399,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Vision Loss Resources Inc does
Mission
To provide independent-living services and training, community-building, outreach and education for people who are low-vision, blind, or deafblind, and their caregivers and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rehabilitation center - provides comprehensive training for people with vision impairment to achieve greater independence at home, work, and school, including safe travel skills, technology, braille, and tasks of daily living. In 2025, almost 100 students participated in daily, weekly, and on-demand classes to adapt to their vision loss.
$764,634 spent54% of program spendingDeafblind services minnesota - provides one-to-one support services and independent living training to deafblind individuals of all ages, including support service providers for adults, and interveners for children. In 2025, 52 deafblind adults and 23 deafblind children and youth received 8100 hours of service to empower them to communicate with others in their community.
$658,720 spent46% of program spendingCommunity services in 2025, our program volunteers provided 1300 hours of supportive services to 38 clients of the blind community. Activities included: facilitating support groups, being a reader to help with mail and other weekly tasks, and helping with shopping. Our volunteers help individuals who are blind or visually impaired maintain their independence.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,423,354.
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 $15M to $22M (+50%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Peter M Kramer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $247k → $227k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 LOSS RESOURCES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 LOSS RESOURCES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 73% · 2019 48% · 2020 21% · 2021 13% · 2022 16% · 2023 11% — 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
68% of VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
70% of VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like VISION LOSS RESOURCES 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Deafblind Services of Minnesota LLC · disregarded
- Vlr Foundation · exempt
- Contract Production Services LLC · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISION LOSS RESOURCES 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 LOSS RESOURCES INC?
- VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,144 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($399,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,867,144 in grants to VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $399,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 31 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