Texas · Private foundation
Alcon Cares Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 142
- Grants FY2024
- 151
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,877
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $909,835
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 151
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 37
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Alcon Cares Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 141 | $3.1M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 151 | $2.8M | 54% |
| FY2022 | 117 | $1.9M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 90 | $1.8M | 78% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical Eye Expeditions International Inc | $1,810,174 | 2 | 6% |
| Christian Ophthalmic Surgery Expedition Network | $1,517,671 | 5 | 4% |
| Mercy Ships Foundation | $447,715 | 2 | 5% |
| Guerrero Crystal Foundation | $372,696 | 5 | 64% |
| Medical Ministry International US | $315,475 | 4 | 5% |
| Mercy Ships International | $263,357 | 3 | 0% |
| The Armenian Eyecare Project | $224,611 | 4 | 6% |
| Eye for God Ministries | $214,485 | 5 | n/a |
| Project Orbis International Inc | $177,436 | 2 | 0% |
| Benevolent Missions International | $168,316 | 4 | 28% |
Show all 233 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 138 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alcon Cares Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 171 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Kingsway Charities Inc · The Alcon Foundation Inc · American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · Americares Foundation Inc · Heart to Heart International Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · San Antonio Area Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Direct Relief
How this is measured
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About Alcon Cares Inc
- How much does Alcon Cares Inc give?
- Alcon Cares Inc reported 142 grants totaling $3,133,846 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 151 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Alcon Cares Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (64%), Health (14%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Alcon Cares Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Surgical Eye Expeditions International Inc ($1.8M), Christian Ophthalmic Surgery Expedition Network ($1.5M), Mercy Ships Foundation ($448k).
- Does Alcon Cares Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alcon Cares Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alcon Cares Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kingsway Charities Inc, The Alcon Foundation Inc, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation.
- Where is Alcon Cares Inc based?
- Alcon Cares Inc is based in TX.
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