Ne Foundation for Children's Vision
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470810311
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024747716
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blind/Visually Impaired Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,664
- Expenses
- $22,756
- Assets
- $45,713
- Liabilities
- $1,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTEN REED (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KRISTEN REED (PRESIDENT)
- WILL FERGUSON (SECRETARY/TR)
- MIKAELA BETKA (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation either engages in or initiates a variety of activities to increase public awareness of the importance of vision care for children and the relationships between vision and a child's ability to learn.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other services to promote children's vision and the relationship between children's vision and the ability to learn, including an educational website used to promote children's vision in Nebraska.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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: 62
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.1%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.1% of revenue deployed · 18.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.