Unite for Sight Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320081616
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- North Haven, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2034044900
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Eye Diseases, Blindness and Vision Impairments
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,204
- Expenses
- $71,530
- Assets
- $833,706
- Liabilities
- $2,153
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFIER STAPLE-CLARK (FOUNDER & CEO)
People named in this filing
- ERIC BERTRAND (DIRECTOR)
- JENNIFIER STAPLE-CLARK (FOUNDER & CEO)
- JULIA NEMIROFF (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
Empower communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide education, supplies and surgical support to improve eye health in north america, africa, asia, and latin america. The organization supported surgeries and eye care for over 200,000 individuals that was provided by local eye doctors in africa, asia, and latin america. The organization also trained volunteers to assist the local eye clinics abroad. The organization also works to eliminate barriers to care in north america by connecting community members with eye exams through national free health coverage programs available through unaffiliated professional organizations. The volunteer programs generate revenue for the provision of eye health services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 80% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 46
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: -3.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.66; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.