Sights for Hope Earns Top Ratings for Accountability and Transparency Again in 2026

Sights for Hope has earned Charity Navigator’s maximum four-star rating for the fifth straight year and Candid’s platinum transparency rating for the sixth straight year.

Charity Navigator is the world’s largest and most utilized evaluator of nonprofit organizations. It evaluates nearly 200,000 organizations globally based on their financial health, accountability, and transparency. Sights for Hope’s four-star rating, which it first earned in 2022, reflects that it “exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in its cause.”

Candid, formerly GuideStar, is the world’s largest source of information about nonprofit organizations. Its transparency rating is based on the information that an organization provides to Candid’s digital platform. Organizations that earn the platinum seal, which Sights for Hope has done annually since 2021, are considered among the top 1% of American nonprofits with respect to transparency.

“Our ability to earn these top ratings year after year shows that we are doing our work the right way,” said Dennis Zehner, Executive Director and CEO of Sights for Hope. They affirm that we are responsible stewards of the resources entrusted to us and that we can stay focused on what truly counts, empowering people with blindness and vision loss and promoting healthy eyesight and school readiness for children.”

Sights for Hope empowers people to overcome the challenges of vision loss and promotes healthy eyesight throughout Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and Monroe County. Sights for Hope educates people with limited or no vision about adaptive skills, improves their access to essential services, boosts their confidence and emotional well-being, and helps them obtain assistive devices. Sights for Hope also connects pre-kindergarten children to eye care and teaches people how to keep their eyes strong and safe. Founded in 1928, Sights for Hope is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind (PAB) and the national VisionServe Alliance.

Image: Smiling woman in a blue suit outside Sights for Hope’s Lehigh Valley Service Center holds a large sign highlighting Sights for Hope’s four-star Charity Navigator rating from 2022 to 2026. Image generated partially with artificial intelligence.