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VisionGift

VisionGift (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,972 to it, the largest being Eye Bank Association of America ($64,594). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$15M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$178k
Net assets
$9.1M
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What VisionGift does

Mission

To honor donors by advancing sight for all humankind.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Eye bankVisionGift provides human eye tissue for transplant, research, and medical education. In collaboration with our pacific northwest donation partners, our referral center screened over 20,000 potential donation candidates which resulted in 1925 eye donors. Locations in boston and portland distributed a total 8322 tissues for research, training, and transplantation across the united states and throughout the world.

    $11,940,543 spent$14,135,471 earned by the program
    91% of program spending
  2. ResearchVisionGift provided 1654 eye tissues in support of 86 individual research projects and numerous surgical training events. Additionally, the research program advances ophthalmic knowledge through in-house research projects. This research helps support the advancement novel tissue grafts, publications in peer reviewed research, and presentations at scientific meetings.

    $1,246,093 spent$589,682 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,186,636.

02The 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 ($8.4M) Expenses 100 ($8.2M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 123 ($10M) Expenses 126 ($10M) Net assets 99 ($12M)2019 Revenue 134 ($11M) Expenses 133 ($11M) Net assets 106 ($13M)2020 Revenue 113 ($9.5M) Expenses 130 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2021 Revenue 162 ($14M) Expenses 157 ($13M) Net assets 107 ($13M)2022 Revenue 152 ($13M) Expenses 162 ($13M) Net assets 95 ($12M)2023 Revenue 172 ($14M) Expenses 192 ($16M) Net assets 87 ($11M)2024 Revenue 180 ($15M) Expenses 203 ($17M) Net assets 75 ($9.1M)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (203)Net assets (75)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $14M (−11%).

$14M
$14M
$15M
$15M
$16M
$14M
$13M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of VisionGift’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$106k
’17
−$89k
’18
$303k
’19
−$1.3M
’20
$544k
’21
−$657k
’22
−$1.4M
’23
−$1.7M
’24
0.3
months of
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

Chris Storger

CEO

Board chair

Matt Fisher Jd

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed1515141322202223
Joined·+1+0+0+9+2+4+2
No longer listed·1110421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $36k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VisionGift’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

VisionGift leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

36% 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 VisionGift.

36%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 59% · 2023 86% — 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.

Where its funders are

VisionGift draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states in all.

NY
OR
VA

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VisionGift has grown faster than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding VisionGift receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.

Federal$48k
grants $0contracts $48k
Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$48k

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 VisionGift

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MA
OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VisionGift: 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 VisionGift?
VisionGift (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,972 to it, the largest being Eye Bank Association of America ($64,594). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VisionGift have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $177,972 in grants to VisionGift, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VisionGift?
Eye Bank Association of America is the largest funder on record, with $64,594 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VisionGift find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 6 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