California · Nonprofit
VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT
VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,069,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,725,030). 18 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 FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $332k
What Visions Global Empowerment does
Mission
Visions strives to enable sustainable development through education, leadership and technology. Visions is especially focused on enabling social change in communities affected by poverty, conflict and disability through education, leadership development and technology. We envision a world where all people have access to quality education, are empowered to realize their unique aspirations, and are equipped to make positive contributions to our world. Currently, visions operates in 5 countries - ethiopia, india, sri lanka, nicaragua and the u.s.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Escuela vera angelita (nicaragua)a private, nonprofit boarding school for youth from underserved & vulnerable communities. This modern school campus lies on a 437-acre property in the community of san ramon, matagalpa, nicaragua. Intended to ultimately serve youth from grades 5-12, the school is currently for grade 10 students only. The campus is located in a secure section of the almost entirely self-sufficient vera angelita estate, which is also home to a full-fledged farm, coffee plantation, botanical gardens, onsite housing for staff & guests, plant nursery, and nature reserve."
$815,423 spentof which $807,950 as grants60% of program spending2. Institutional supportvisions nurtures partnerships with dozens of local civil society organizations that are the change-makers in their own communities - the locally-rooted, innovative problem solvers and program administrators serving the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in their area. In 2021, visions provided support both for ongoing operations and development of new infrastructure or activities of schools, hospitals, and community service organizations providing vital nonprofit education and health services to those in greatest need in their respective communities.
$64,147 spentof which $64,147 as grants5% of program spending3. Deaf education & empowerment (ethiopia)visions provides a holistic set of support services (including education, health, livelihoods development, community advocacy, interpretation, language development, etc.) to youth living with hearing loss in ethiopia through our visions center for the deaf and visions academy school for the deaf, both of which are based in hawassa, sidama region, ethopia.
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$477,216 spentof which $236,090 as grants35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,356,786.
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 $155k to $1.4M (+802%).
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.
97% of VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $318k → $2.3M.
6 of 26 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Visions Global Development). These are real filings, and they are not money VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT’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
VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 49% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
99% of VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT'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 $201k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside California, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT has grown faster than half of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT?
- VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,069,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,725,030). 18 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 VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $16,069,569 in grants to VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,725,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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