North Central Sight Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 240814118
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Williamsport, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5703239401
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blind/Visually Impaired Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,439,011
- Expenses
- $10,411,921
- Assets
- $11,031,012
- Liabilities
- $1,504,790
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM ZIMMER (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KIM ZIMMER (PRESIDENT/CEO): $212,380 total reported compensation
- NICHOLE PAGE (DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING AND): $114,818 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Create sustainable, person-centered programs, and employment that enhance independence for individuals with unique visual capabilities. We foster positive change, awareness, and advocacy while removing barriers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program services - to provide adjustment to blindness training and support services for people who are losing their sight to live independently in their own home. This is accomplished by offering a variety of adjustments to blindness services defined by the unique needs of the individual dealing with vision loss. Our screening and education programs are designed to educate the public about good eye health and safety, conduct vision screenings designed to detect symptoms that may indicate vision problems in children and adults and prevent the needless loss of vision. Our remedial eye care program assists customers to purchase discounted eyewear and obtain an eye examination. Our vision clinic provides free eye examinations for community members in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.1% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $212K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.