Insight Beyond Eyesight

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872396199
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Suffern, NY, USA
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Blind/Visually Impaired Centers
Affiliation
Judaism

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,562
Expenses
$65,079
Assets
$24,744
Liabilities
$7,125

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rachel Bodek (President)
  • Esther Markowitz (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Saraha Werdyger (Secretary)
  • Rachel Bodek (President)
  • Esther Markowitz (Vice President)

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

The organization provides support information and networking for Jewish individuals who are visually impaired and their families. The organization hosts events throughout the year including in-person support group conferences classes and teleconference calls so that members may connect with others share resources and The organizaton also helps members with various needs on a 1:1 basis which include advocacy and finding proper services. Furthermore the organization has implemented an exchange program of Braille and large print books as well as devices and equipment for the blind.

What it reported doing in 2025

Insight Beyond Eyesight offers members accessible devices and equipment to assist with education daily living and tasks that may otherwise be challenging. Items provided include hard copy Braille Braille devices magnifying devices canes protective gear and more.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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. 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: 36
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 37.8%; rating input score 38
  • Program expense ratio: 32.9%; rating input score 33

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -88.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -28.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.8% of revenue deployed · 32.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.