Missouri · Nonprofit
VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC
VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $759,721 to it, the largest being LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC ($553,719). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $987k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $760k
- Net assets
- $572k
What Visionserve Alliance Inc does
Mission
We believe that nonprofit organizations providing services to and for people with blindness and low vision will adhere to the highest standards of ethical practice and effectiveness in governance, fiduciary responsibility, self-regulations, and financial accountability. And that it is right to provide high quality resources that assist in removing barriers experienced by people with blindness and low vision in their pursuit of the same opportunities in life as sighted people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Dedicated to capacity building and advocacy, visionserve alliance is an international association with more than 100 nonprofit members. The alliance offers a wide range of leadership, management, and technical skill building educational programs, advanced seminars, and peer learning opportunities. The alliance acts as a catalyst and a convener on important issues which impact people with blindness and low vision. The alliance also works to unify the sector offering annually a ceo leadership summit and an executive conference with high end learning, networking, and collaboration events.
$890,791 spent$274,728 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $890,791.
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 2022 to 2023, from $564k to $759k (+35%).
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.
58% of VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Lauren Branch
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $89k.
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 VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE 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
VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 94% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 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.
Against its field
VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- OR$10k
- MA$5k
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 VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE 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 VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC?
- VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $759,721 to it, the largest being LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC ($553,719). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $759,721 in grants to VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC?
- LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC is the largest funder on record, with $553,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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