Empowering Vision Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
333369166
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Littleton, CO, USA
Rating
52
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$78,518
Expenses
$15,855
Assets
$65,942
Liabilities
$3,279

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kiera Zink (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kiera Zink (Executive Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide direct one-to-one critical vision services to children with visual impairments and additional disabilities ages 3-21 in their homes and communities in the State of Colorado.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 Empowering Vision Foundation provided 27 one-on-one in-home functional vision services to 9 families with a child who has vision loss and other impairments. We equip parents with practical strategies for their childs real-life independence. We support children with low vision like Cortical Visual Impairments in accessing their environments and strengthening the skills they need to thrive. After receiving our services one family reported their child had a breakthrough in math at school. Because our services offered individualized adjustments and targeted exercises to support smoother tracking her confidence increased and she was able to focus on learning instead of struggling to see. Her parents shared that none of this would be possible without Empowering Vision Foundation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 17
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 6.8%; rating input score 7
  • Program expense ratio: 33.6%; rating input score 34

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 79.8%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.16; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 6.8% of revenue deployed · 33.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.