Sight Savers International Inc

Analysis

Sight Savers International Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Boston, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sight Savers International Inc reported income of $281.3m and spending of $281.3m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $281.4m to $281.3m (-0.1%), an average of +-0.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sight Savers International Inc sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Deaconess Memorial Medical Center Inc ($281.1m), Hudson Valley Hospital Center ($281.5m) and Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation ($281.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $152k against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $142k.