Second Chance for Sight Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883133462
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Haverhill, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9789145963
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,603
- Expenses
- $9,243
- Assets
- $50,360
- Liabilities
- $432
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ZACHARY SINDONI (PRESIDENT)
- GEENA SINDONI (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ZACHARY SINDONI (PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT BERGERON (DIRECTOR)
- KAITLIN WRIGHT (CLERK / SECRETARY)
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
Our mission at second chance for sight is to empower individuals and families impacted by visual impairments caused by trauma through education, support, and resource access. We strive to create a community of understanding and solidarity, and foster communication and collaboration with local, regional, and national organizations to improve access to resources and programs. Our goal is to raise awareness and stimulate interest in this issue, and to provide assistance in the development of treatments and services. We are dedicated to creating a brighter future for all individuals affected by visual impairments caused by trauma.
What it reported doing in 2025
Empower individuals and families impacted by visual impairments caused by trauma through education, support, and resource access.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.2%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.8%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.45; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.