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WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC

WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,345 to it, the largest being ALCON CARES INC ($24,920). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$34k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$20k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What World Blindness Outreach Inc does

Mission

Treatment of preventable and correctable blindness and eye disease in impoverished countries

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Treatment of preventable and correctable blindness and eye disease. A mission to ecuador was carried out in 2022

    $0 spent
  2. Life enhancement awards

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($54k)2021 Revenue 85 ($36k) Expenses 85 ($13k) Net assets 143 ($77k)2022 Revenue 26 ($11k) Expenses 234 ($37k) Net assets 95 ($51k)2023 Revenue 73 ($31k) Expenses 237 ($37k) Net assets 83 ($45k)2024 Revenue 57 ($24k) Expenses 281 ($44k) Net assets 46 ($25k)2025 Revenue 79 ($34k) Expenses 245 ($39k) Net assets 37 ($20k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (79)Expenses (245)Net assets (37)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 $77k to $51k (−34%).

$54k
$77k
$51k
$46k
$25k
$20k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,031 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’20
$23k
’21
−$26k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$20k
’24
−$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $7k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH 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

WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 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

WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.

PA
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC has grown faster than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC?
WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,345 to it, the largest being ALCON CARES INC ($24,920). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $33,345 in grants to WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC?
ALCON CARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORLD BLINDNESS OUTREACH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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