Vision Quest 2020
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043747651
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 8886987202
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Eye Diseases, Blindness and Vision Impairments
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $436,489
- Expenses
- $145,060
- Assets
- $179,766
- Liabilities
- $43,543
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES W O'NEIL MD (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD S TIRENDI (CEO & TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- JAMES W O'NEIL MD (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD S TIRENDI (CEO & TREASURER)
- RANDAL CHRISTENSEN MD (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The mission of the organization is to protect children from undetected vision impairment and preventable blindness by establishing our country's first nationwide vision screening program.our vision is to serve as a catalyst for a dramatic improvement in accessibility and standardization of vision screenings to support detection of the most prevalent and severe vision disorders. Visionquest 20/20's goal is not to perform vision screenings. Instead, our vision is to integrate innovative technology into the existing infrastructure of school systems, government health programs and other non-profit vision organizations to help build their capacity to conduct vision screenings so that every child is screened annually.
What it reported doing in 2024
Since 2017, visionquest 20/20 has continued to operate following a substantial reduction in staff personnel including consultants and volunteer engagement. Visionquest 20/20 continues to have no paid staff and richard tirendi is still volunteering as the ceo.given the on-going limitation in personnel, visionquest 20/20 expended most fiscal resources on program support and not on fund development. M & g expenditures were minimized as well.in 2024, 32,798 children were provided vision screenings using the technology provided by visionquest 20/20 at 184 schools in Arizona, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Florida, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Texas, and New Mexico. The ages of the children served ranged from 18 months to 18 years with majority between ages of 5 years and 18 years. Of all children screened, 9,019 were referred for follow up from an eye care professional. Average testing duration of 1 minutes and 53 seconds per child.this represents a ~5% decrease in children served year over year. We are expanding the program's availability substantially and therefore expect to serve considerably more children in 2025.eyespy 20/20 vision screening software detects distant visual acuity, depth perception and color blindness and offers ability to manually enter near visual acuity screening results for consideration when referring children for professional follow up. Eyespy 20/20 can be configured to provide threshold or critical line visual acuity screening at distance. Eyespy 20/20 also integrates with, and collects data from, objective, instrument-based vision screening devices. This integration affords schools the ability to use a combination of methods to determine which students need professional evaluation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.4%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $117.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th 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: 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: 66.8%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.4% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 28/100.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.