New York · Nonprofit
WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION
WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,000 to it, the largest being Griffith R Harsh IV And Margaret C Whitman Charitable Foundation ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $815k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Warby Parker Impact Foundation does
Mission
To promote eye health and educate the public about eye care and eye health by (I) conducting vision screenings, eye exams, and other eye care services for underprivileged children and adults, (ii) helping people identify and access local eye care providers for additional care and support and transporting patients to and from eye care appointments, (iii) providing, maintaining, and repairing eyeglasses for underprivileged children and adults, (iv) conducting classes, workshops, awareness campaigns, and other educational programs to educate the public about eye care and eye health, (v) creating and distributing educational materials related to eye care and eye health, (vi)lobbying for issues related to eye care and eye health, (vii) conducting or commissioning research related to eye care and eye health, (viii) making grants to underprivileged children and adults to pay for eye care services and products, and (ix) making grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $179k to $10M (+5726%).
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.
90% of WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Hannah Kowalski
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $80k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION’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
WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 71% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — 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
71% of WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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
WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION: 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 WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION?
- WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,000 to it, the largest being Griffith R Harsh IV And Margaret C Whitman Charitable Foundation ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $815,000 in grants to WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION?
- Griffith R Harsh IV And Margaret C Whitman Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WARBY PARKER IMPACT FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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