Charity profile · Historical source record

Sankara Eye Foundation, USA

EIN 77-6141976Health California Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Help us eradicate curable blindness

Founded in 1998, the mission of the Sankara Eye Foundation, USA (SEF, USA) is to realize the goal of eradicating curable blindness in India. We initiate and drive community eye care activities in India by working with eye care organizations such as Sankara Eye Foundation, India which runs Sankara Eye Hospitals across India.. SEF USA has increased the number of specialty eye care hospitals from 1 in 1998 to 9 by 2017. The number of free eye surgeries is performed at an annual rate of 160,000 as of 2017. The goal is to perform 500,000 free eye surgeries per year. SEF has performed over 1.66 million free eye surgeries as of Nov 30, 2017.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

100.00Overall score
out of 100

100.00Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$6,219,847

Total expenses · USD$7,330,498

Program expenses

$6,238,253.80 recorded amount

85.1%

Fundraising expenses

$564,448.35 recorded amount

7.7%

Administrative expenses

$520,465.36 recorded amount

7.1%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.07 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: K. Muralidharan
Recorded compensation: $115,200.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.57%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

Exact source strings are retained below, including numeric precision. A blank value is marked as not reported; zero remains zero.

All 23 original fields for Sankara Eye Foundation, USA
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1998, the mission of the Sankara Eye Foundation, USA (SEF, USA) is to realize the goal of eradicating curable blindness in India. We initiate and drive community eye care activities in India by working with eye care organizations such as Sankara Eye Foundation, India which runs Sankara Eye Hospitals across India.. SEF USA has increased the number of specialty eye care hospitals from 1 in 1998 to 9 by 2017. The number of free eye surgeries is performed at an annual rate of 160,000 as of 2017. The goal is to perform 500,000 free eye surgeries per year. SEF has performed over 1.66 million free eye surgeries as of Nov 30, 2017.
`ein` EIN	77-6141976
`tot_exp` Total expenses	7330498.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.071
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.07
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.077
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.851
`fscore` Financial score	100.0
`leader` Recorded leader	K. Muralidharan
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	115200.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.015700000000000002
`motto` Tagline	Help us eradicate curable blindness
`name` Charity name	Sankara Eye Foundation, USA
`tot_rev` Total revenue	6219847.0
`score` Overall score	100.0
`state` State code	CA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Treatment and Prevention Services
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	6238253.7979999995
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	564448.346
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	520465.35799999995

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.