Rosani Lens Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850822887
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lake Lure, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8438173590
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Eye Diseases, Blindness and Vision Impairments
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,929
- Expenses
- $76,969
- Assets
- $120,955
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN THOMAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BENJAMIN THOMAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DANIEL GOSNELL (DIRECTOR)
- RYAN REESE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The rosani lens project was started in 2019 by dr. Benjamin thomas as a means to expand glasses access around the world, but the idea for the project stretches back to 2013 and a residency research project at the bascom palmer eye institute in miami, Florida. Presented with the problem of how to bring good glasses to more people, with limited human resources but plenty of human goodwill, we imagined a solution that inspired the initial research project and, now, the rosani lens project. With medical missions experience on five continents, including as a fellow with the himalayan cataract project, this lens project is the culmination of a career-long desire to help others through the restoration of sight.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since the foundation of the rosani lens project in 2020, we have seen great progress being made in our goal of empowering lives & communities through the restoration of vision. We are humbled and overly thankful for the many individuals and teams that have been willing to take rosani kits to the far reaches of the globe and serve populations that have little to no access to eye care. Up to this point, rosani has been able to send kits with teams to 21 countries on 5 continents and provide new custom eyeglasses to over 4,000 patients!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.