Isight Missions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463625566
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- La Jolla, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8584548110
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,748
- Expenses
- $76,870
- Assets
- $654,131
- Liabilities
- $37,720
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFFREY J RUTGARD MD (President)
People named in this filing
- JEFFREY J RUTGARD MD (President)
- AUDREY SCHWARZBEIN (Secretary)
- RICHARD GRAHAM (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Isight missions, inc was formed to sponsor and provide medical missions to economically distressed countries and regions, worldwide, to cure blindness by providing expert eye evaluations and surgeries to underserved and disadvantaged persons. Isight missions also provides training to practicing ophthalmologists, opthtalmology residents and fellows and assisting nurses to become expert in specialized surgical techniques specially developed and adapted for remote locations.isight missions provides humanitarian opportunities for ophthalmologists, residents and fellows, medical, nursing, and university students on its mission projects. These compassionate humanitarian projects inspire multi-generational volunteerism making the world a better place for the disadvantaged and underserved by creating an experience of the giving of talents, time and money for others.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 isight missions completed 16 humanitarian projects, examined 1,243 patients, restored vision by doing surgeries on 410 blind impoverished patients.msics training included 16 residents or fellows and 19 practiciing physicians, 1 high school student, 15 pre-medical students, 1 pre-p.a. Student, 3 med students, 2 nursing students equipping the surgeons and students with the skills to volunteer on future humanitarian eye / medical projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.5%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 61.5%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.51; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 63.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.