Saving Kidsight
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813176016
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8554543744
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $498,925
- Expenses
- $253,495
- Assets
- $372,230
- Liabilities
- $13,517
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICK MARTCHINK (PRESIDENT)
- HAROLD SPIRE (VICE - PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA STEPHENSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JENE CROOK (TREASURER)
- MARYJANE NOELLSCH (DIRECTOR)
- SUSAN PADEN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Saving kidsight's mission is to prevent vision conditions and promote healthy eyesight in children. The organization offers children's vision screenings at daycares, preschools, schools and community events. After every screening, kidsight provides dedicated follow-up services for families of children who are referred for potential vision disorders.
What it reported doing in 2024
Saving kidsight (the organization), provides a mobile vision screening program that goes into daycares, preschools, schools, and community events. Children are screened for serious vision disorders, amblyopia and strabismus, which can lead to significant visual impairment if left untreated, as well as other more common vision disorders. After detection, kidsight provides intervention and referrals through the kidsight vision care network. The vision care network answers questions that parents may have about the screening, and can aid them with finding an eye doctor, navigating the health care system and locating financial assistance. The organization is affiliated with the Missouri lions md26, but maintains separate bylaws and its own board of directors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.5%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $36.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 49.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.5% of revenue deployed · 63.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.