Partners for Pediatric Vision
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922536887
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3236128285
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Eye Diseases, Blindness and Vision Impairments
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $469,130
- Expenses
- $485,998
- Assets
- $734,012
- Liabilities
- $-1,045
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANNE PETERSON (President)
Highest reported compensation
- DIANE CHRISTIAN (Executive Dir.): $111,744 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To turn possibilities into achievements for children with visual impairment and their families. We envision a world where all children with visual impairment have equal access to healthcare, education, and support to be successful in life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Turn possibilities into achievements for children with viual impairment and their families. We envision a world where all children with visual impairment have equal access to healthcare, education, and support to be successful in life.partners for pediatric vision provides comprehensive pediatric vision services to familiies with children with visual impairment and blindness that maximize learning and independence in their child. Families receive critial intervention, education, resources, and support at the earliest point possible to help on their journey of parenting a child with visual impaorment ofr blindness, partners for pediatric vision's unique model matches each family with a child & family vision specialist. Specialist participate in eye exams, explain diagnoses, demonstrate assistive technology, and train parents to adapt the home and classroom environment to meet the child's needs. This support helps families reduce stress, build advocacy skills, k and fell empowered in their child's journey. Services are provided in english and spanish.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 23%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -82.2% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $330K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.