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OPERATION SIGHT

EIN 45-3449443 MT PLEASANT, SC

Revenue 2024
$124,341
Expenses 2024
$265,543

Program services were 46.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G41
Classification
1000
Street
1101 CLARITY RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OPERATION SIGHT IS A NONPROFIT, COMMUNITY-INTEGRATED PROGRAM WITH THE GOAL TO RESTORE VISION AND IMPROVE LIVES OF QUALIFIED, UNINSURED SOUTH CAROLINA RESIDENTS SUFFERING FROM CATARACTS OR URGENT, SIGHT-THREATENING RETINAL DISORDERS REQUIRING SURGICAL INTERVENTION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO RESTORE THE VISION AND IMPROVE THE LIVES OF QUALIFIED, UNINSURED SOUTH CAROLINA RESIDENTS

  • OPERATION SIGHT'S GOAL IS TO AID LOW-INCOME, UNINSURED PERSONS WITH OPERABLE CATARACTS BY ELIMINATING THE DISPARITY THAT COMES WHEN PREVENTABLE BLINDNESS IS A PRODUCT OF POVERTY. RESTORING A PARTICIPANTS VISION AND ENHANCING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE WILL HAVE A DIRECT COMMUNITY IMPACT, AS CATARACT PATIENTS CAN RETURN TO THE WORKFORCE, INCREASE TAX REVENUE, DECREASE THEIR NEED FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND PROVIDE STABILIZATION OF THEIR FAMILY STRUCTURES. IN ITS FISCAL YEAR 2022, OPERATION SIGHT PERFORMED 62 CATARACT SURGERIES. THANKS TO IN-KIND DONATIONS FROM ALCON, OPERATION SIGHT PARTICIPANTS RECEIVED ALL OF THE PHARMACEUTICALS NECESSARY TO PRE- AND POST-OPERATIVE CARE FOR FREE.

    Expenses $122,240

  • IN 2015, OPERATION SIGHT BEGAN PROVIDING FREE SURGERY FOR URGENT, SIGHT THREATENING RETINAL DISORDERS REQUIRING SURGICAL INTERVENTION. IN ITS FISCAL YEAR 2022, OPERATION SIGHT PARTICIPANTS RECEIVED 8 RETINAL SURGERIES AND IN ITS MOST RECENT FISCAL YEAR 2021, PARTICIPANTS RECEIVED 7 RETINA SURGERIES.

  • OPERATION SIGHT NOT ONLY PARTNERS WITH THE VOLUNTEER OPHTHALMOLOGISTS WHO PROVIDE SURGERY, BUT ALSO WITH VOLUNTEER OPTOMETRISTS AND FREE MEDICAL CLINICS. THESE EYECARE PROFESSIONALS PROVIDE FREE EYE EXAMS TO POTENTIAL OPERATION SIGHT PARTICIPANTS AS WELL AS POST-OPERATIVE EXAMS, CARE, AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR GLASSES. REFERRALS FOR FREE OR LOW-COST PRESCRIPTION GLASSES ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE OPERATION SIGHT PROGRAM COORDINATOR.IN ITS FISCAL YEAR 2022, OPERATION SIGHT PERFORMED 1 YAG PROCEDURE.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BRENDA HORN

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $52,247
    From this org
    $52,247
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANDREW FRY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLE MILLIKEN MD

    BOARD PHYSIC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANCISCO FOLGAR MD

    MED ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN BOATWRIGHT MD

    MED ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN BRUGGER MD

    BOARD PHYSIC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KERRY SOLOMON MD

    MED ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL HERRING MD

    MED ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER MORIARTY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS MINIERI

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIBETH MOODY

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER NOWELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CINDI SOLOMON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICK WAGNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOREN ZIFF

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $124,341
    Expenses
    $265,543
    Contributions
    $119,024
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $167,588
    Expenses
    $289,796
    Contributions
    $164,502
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $117,818
    Expenses
    $258,657
    Contributions
    $112,208
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $85,317
    Expenses
    $232,929
    Assets (EOY)
    $168,053

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $156,760
    Expenses
    $269,903
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,550

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $489,676
    Expenses
    $522,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $183,952

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $465,084
    Expenses
    $444,428
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,862

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $489,771
    Expenses
    $487,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $198,031

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $562,363
    Expenses
    $548,045
    Assets (EOY)
    $189,329

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $361,118
    Expenses
    $347,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,787

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $399,181
    Expenses
    $356,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $161,143

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $250,578
    Expenses
    $212,683
    Assets (EOY)
    $119,369

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $247,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,788

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.