Vision Foundation

What Vision Foundation does

Vision Foundation is a UK-registered non-profit charity headquartered in London, founded in 1921, that funds projects for blind and partially sighted people with the stated mission of promoting independence, inclusion, and accessibility (firmographics). The organisation operates with 11–50 employees and is structured around charitable programmes — research funding, social-change grants, donor engagement (monthly and one-off giving, lottery, legacy gifts, philanthropy), volunteer mobilisation, and fundraising events — consistent with the operational footprint of a long-established UK sight-loss charity (per scraped web material referencing programmes of this type).

Separately, data attributed to the same legal name describes the VISION Web3 Foundation, a Web3 infrastructure entity that manages the Vision Token (VSN), built in partnership with Bitpanda as primary platform developer and listed on Binance Alpha on the Arbitrum Blockchain on 2025-11-28. This Web3 entity is positioned as compliant/regulated infrastructure for Europe's digital-asset and tokenisation economy, targeting Web3/crypto users with horizontal segmentation. The two descriptions — a 1921 UK blind-vision charity versus a 2025 Web3 token foundation — are materially inconsistent and the input does not provide reconciliation (ownership, governance, financial linkage, or shared personnel) between them. The business model on the charity side is donation- and grant-driven (individual giving, lottery, legacies, charity retail, corporate philanthropy); on the Web3 side, no pricing or revenue mechanics are disclosed.

Given the conflict, the firmographic profile is treated as the first-party primary source for what Vision Foundation is. Investors should treat the Web3/token data as a distinct, likely unrelated entity until the relationship between the two is verified.

Name

Vision Foundation

Website

https://visionfoundation.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1921

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Vision Foundation is a London-based UK non-profit charity founded in 1921 that funds projects supporting blind and partially sighted people, promoting independence, inclusion, and accessibility (per firmographics). Note: input data also references a separate Web3 VSN-token entity sharing the name.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Disability and vision-loss charitable services

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

Keywords

• Blindness charity services
• Vision impairment support
• Disability funding programs
• Sight loss services
• Accessible community programs

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Vision Foundation is a UK non-profit that funds projects for blind and partially sighted people, promoting independence, inclusion, and accessibility. Founded in 1921 and headquartered in London, the foundation channels charitable resources toward programs serving people affected by sight loss. Its work is delivered through grant-making rather than the sale of goods or technology services.

Product overview

Vision Foundation offers a Web3 infrastructure platform built in partnership with Bitpanda, centered around the Vision Token (VSN). The ecosystem operates on the Arbitrum Blockchain and aims to provide compliant, regulated Web3 infrastructure for Europe's digital asset and tokenisation economy. The primary offering is the VSN token, which serves as the foundational asset for this ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Project funding for blind and partially sighted people Grant funding provided by Vision Foundation to projects serving blind and partially sighted people, with the goal of promoting independence, inclusion, and accessibility for those affected by sight loss.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BitpandacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBitpanda built the Vision Web3 project. Vision is a Web3 project managed by the VISION Web3 Foundation, with Bitpanda serving as the primary developer/builder of the platform infrastructure.

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Sightsavers: International NGO focused on avoidable blindness and disability inclusion in low- and middle-income countries. Comparable as a sight-loss-focused grantmaking and programme charity, though operating in a different geographic footprint.
• Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB): The UK's largest charity for blind and partially sighted people, funding research, campaigning, and providing services. Directly comparable mission and beneficiary population to Vision Foundation, operating in the same UK donor market.
• Guide Dogs (formerly Guide Dogs for the Blind): Major UK charity supporting people with sight loss through mobility services and advocacy. Comparable as a peer grantmaker and service-delivery organisation serving visually impaired people in the UK.
• Fight for Sight: UK charity funding eye disease research and social change programmes for blind and partially sighted people. Operates as a grantmaking charity with the same beneficiary focus and London presence as Vision Foundation.
• Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC): London-based charity supporting blind and partially sighted children and their families. Same beneficiary group (blind/partially sighted) and similar grant-and-services model in the UK.
• Vision Aid Overseas: UK-based charity providing eye care services in developing countries. Adjacent but broadly comparable as a UK-rooted sight-loss charity with international programme delivery and donor base overlap.
• Blind Veterans UK: UK charity providing rehabilitation and support to vision-impaired ex-service personnel. Peer in terms of UK-based grantmaking/advocacy for sight loss, though with a narrower beneficiary cohort.

Emerging players

• International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB): Global alliance coordinating sight-loss and blindness-prevention efforts across NGOs, governments, and corporates. Less directly comparable as a grantmaker but operates in the same global sight-loss advocacy and funding ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Vision_Fdn
• Facebookfacebook.com/VisionFdn
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/visionfoundation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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