New York · Nonprofit
VISIONSPRING INC
VISIONSPRING INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,319,798 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($16,162,377). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Visionspring Inc does
Mission
To provide eyeglasses and vision screening to underserved populations though global programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Visionspring works to increase lifelong earning, learning, safety, and well-being through eyeglasses for people vulnerable to poverty. In 2023, we screened more than 2.6 million people and corrected the vision of nearly 1.9 million, providing eyeglasses to low-income earners and learners so they can see well and do well. More than half of these individuals received their first-ever pair of eyeglasses. This year also marked our total distribution of eyeglasses to 12 million people and unlocked an estimated $2.6 billion in income-earning potential for households living on less than $4 per day since the organization's founding in 2001.in 2023, visionspring continued its focus on optical services and eyeglasses sales, growing at a rate of 16% year-on-year. Our target customers were reached in over 20 countries, including our largest markets in india, bangladesh, and sub-saharan africa. Visionspring's program activities are implemented through two models: vision access programs and institutional partnerships.in 2023, our vision access programs (vap) corrected the vision of 846,000 people in workplaces, factories, schools, transportation hubs, and rural and informal settlements.…
$7,828,374 spentof which $3,351,860 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,828,374.
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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $29M (+92%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 6% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of VISIONSPRING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% 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.
Chief executive
Ella Gudwin
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Vipul Bhagat
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.8M.
17 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 VISIONSPRING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
VISIONSPRING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 VISIONSPRING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 45% · 2019 29% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 81% · 2023 31% — 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
56% of VISIONSPRING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
54% of VISIONSPRING INC'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 $18M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
VISIONSPRING INC has grown faster than half of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding VISIONSPRING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$2.0M
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 VISIONSPRING 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 9 related entities
- Visionspring India Co Visionspring · exempt
- Visionspring Ghana Limited by Guarantee · exempt
- Visionspring Nigeria Eye Health Initiative Company Limitedgte · exempt
- Visionspring Vietnam Limited Company · exempt
- Visionspring Private Limited · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISIONSPRING 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 VISIONSPRING INC?
- VISIONSPRING INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,319,798 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($16,162,377). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VISIONSPRING INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $39,319,798 in grants to VISIONSPRING INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISIONSPRING INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $16,162,377 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISIONSPRING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 49 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