Arizona · Nonprofit
VISION QUEST 2020
VISION QUEST 2020 (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,698 to it, the largest being TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA ($440,184). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $436k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $655k
- Net assets
- $136k
What Vision Quest 2020 does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to protect children from undetected vision impairment and preventable blindness by establishing our country's first nationwide vision screening program.our vision is to serve as a catalyst for a dramatic improvement in accessibility and standardization of vision screenings to support detection of the most prevalent and severe vision disorders. Visionquest 20/20's goal is not to perform vision screenings. Instead, our vision is to integrate innovative technology into the existing infrastructure of school systems, government health programs and other non-profit vision organizations to help build their capacity to conduct vision screenings so that every child is screened annually.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Program service: $14,851.06 m&g: $7,053.87 fundraising: $2,288.57since 2017, visionquest 20/20 has continued to operate following a substantial reduction in staff personnel including consultants and volunteer engagement. Visionquest 20/20 continues to have no paid staff and richard tirendi is still volunteering as the ceo.given the on-going limitation in personnel, visionquest 20/20 expended most fiscal resources on program support and not on fund development. M & g expenditures were minimized as well.in 2023, 34,534 children were provided vision screenings using the technology provided by visionquest 20/20 at 144 schools in arizona, wisconsin, california, illinois, kansas, new hampshire, texas, nebraska, ohio, and iowa. The ages of the children served ranged from 18 months to 18 years with majority between ages of 5 years and 18 years. Of all children screened, 10,809 were referred for follow up from an eye care professional. Average testing duration of 1 minutes and 40 seconds per child.this represents a slight decrease in children served when compared to 2022 however, we do not anticipate that trend continuing. We anticipate screenings to increase in 2024 due to clarification…
$24,193 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,193.
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 2018 to 2019, from $363k to $134k (−63%).
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.
100% of VISION QUEST 2020’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Richard S Tirendi
CEO & treasurer
Board chair
James W O'Neil Md
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $49k → $47k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 QUEST 2020’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 QUEST 2020 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 QUEST 2020.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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
85% of VISION QUEST 2020's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
VISION QUEST 2020 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VISION QUEST 2020
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISION QUEST 2020: 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 QUEST 2020?
- VISION QUEST 2020 (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,698 to it, the largest being TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA ($440,184). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISION QUEST 2020 have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $654,698 in grants to VISION QUEST 2020, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISION QUEST 2020?
- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA is the largest funder on record, with $440,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISION QUEST 2020 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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