Reader's Digest Partners for Sight
Mt Kisco, NY · EIN 13-6120440. Reported 52 grants totalling $1,999,078 to 32 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Reader's Digest Partners for Sight, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G41Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 30% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $39,400. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,437 and the largest $84,680. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perkins School for the Blind | Watertown, MA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Visions Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired | New York, NY | $143,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired | Winnetka, IL | $122,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Salus University | Elkins Park, PA | $121,419 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Filomen M Dagostino Greenberg Music School Inc | New York, NY | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lighthouse Guild International Inc | New York, NY | $109,459 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Braille Press Inc | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Success Beyond Sight Inc | Tucson, AZ | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Visionlink | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired | Chicago, IL | $99,029 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Helen Keller International | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | Yorktown Hts, NY | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Carroll Center for the Blind Inc | Newton, MA | $57,850 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Society to Prevent Blindness | Chicago, IL | $50,028 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Council of the Blind Inc | Alexandria, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Helen Keller Services | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Learning Ally Inc | Princeton, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Hampshire Association for the Blind | Concord, NH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teach Access Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| American Printing House for the Blind Inc | Louisville, KY | $38,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United States Association for Blind Athletes Inc | Colorado Springs, CO | $32,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blinded Veterans Association | Alexandria, VA | $31,616 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lavelle School for the Blind | Bronx, NY | $29,875 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Foundation for the Blind Inc | Huntington, WV | $28,386 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Computers for the Blind | Richardson, TX | $25,466 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Polus Center for Social and Economic Development | Athol, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Via Visually Impaired Advancement | Buffalo, NY | $18,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| A Closer Look | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation Inc | Mobile, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jbi International Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
15 of 32 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Salus University
INTERSHIP PROGRAM FOR ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY TRAINING - Helen Keller International
SUPPORT FOR U.S. VISION AND NEW JERSEY VISION PROGRAM - Hadley
TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR MICROSOFT SEEING AI APPLICATION FOR BOTH BLIND AND LOW VISION USERS. - Lighthouse Guild
INTERGENERATIONAL TECH TRAINING P'SHIP W/CYBER-SENIORS - Lighthouse Guild International Inc
SUPPORT FOR INSIHTFUL SATURDAYS: VIRTUAL YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM - Rutgers University Foundation
SUPPORT FOR EYE2EYE PEER SUPPORT FOR VISION LOSS PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | $397,375 | $29,875 |
| 2021 | 14 | $606,549 | $46,796 |
| 2022 | 8 | $229,594 | $29,797 |
| 2023 | 13 | $483,060 | $36,739 |
| 2024 | 6 | $282,500 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
33% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $39,400 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Reader's Digest Partners for Sight's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 118 North Bedford Road 100, Mt Kisco, NY, 10549.
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