The Vision for Tomorrow Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204840395
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lagrange, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3124050115
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,774
- Expenses
- $21,189
- Assets
- $424,095
- Liabilities
- $63,230
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSAN WOLFE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SUSAN WOLFE (PRESIDENT)
- GRAYSON CHINN (VP/SECRETARY)
- MATT WOLFE (TREASURER)
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 vision for tomorrow foundation seeks to empower people with low vision to have the confidence and ability to achieve their dreams. The goal is to provide funding for research initiatives, support and create educational resources and public awareness projects - and to be recognized as the "go to" source of information for those seeking to learn more about non-degenerative retinal disorders causing low vision at birth.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide funding for research initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.1%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 47.2%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 77.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.01; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.1% of revenue deployed · 47.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 16/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.