Fight for Sight Inc

Analysis

Fight for Sight Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Westbury, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1980, 46 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Fight for Sight Inc reported income of $95k and spending of $181k, spending 191% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $922k to $95k (-90%), an average of -43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Fight for Sight Inc sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 35th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Endowment Fund of the T B Scott Free Library ($95k), German Language School for Children ($95k) and Middlebury Amateur Hockey Association Inc ($95k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $29k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $164k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 1 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.