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American Academy of Ophthalmology Inc

The mission of the american academy of ophthalmology is to protect sight and empower lives by serving as an advocate for patients and the public, leading ophthalmic education, supporting research, and advancing the profession of ophthalmology.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$238k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.5M
$52,725
Median grant
22
States reached
$149M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HAMPSHIRE ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICANS AND SURGEONS$238,198
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS$212,700
WEST VIRGINIA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS$207,645
MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$195,000
IDAHO SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC$143,321
FLORIDA SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$125,000
NEW MEXICO ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$114,569
THE NEW JERSEY ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION INC$81,000
ALABAMA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS$63,000
TENNESSEE AACDEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$60,000
VERMONT OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY$52,725
KANSAS SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS$38,892
ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH$34,055
MISSISSIPPI ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICANS AND SURGEONS$25,000
NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS$20,200
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Blinded Veterans Assocation: $16k → 9%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 14%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 33 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
16

Total granted

$12M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
0%

Still filing today

76%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +19% · 62% of their budget
  • AC
    AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $901k · revenue +20%
  • AA
    ALABAMA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $689k · revenue +37% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +47%
  • CO
    COLORADO OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $798k · revenue -9%
  • SS
    SAFE SURGERY ARKANSAS
    one grant, 2021 · $111k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Inc

The american society of ophthalmic plastic and recontructive surgery (asoprs) was founded to establish a qualified body of surgeons who have training and experience in the highly specialized field of oculofacial plastic surgery. the…

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American Academy of Optometry

To maintain and enhance excellence in optometric practice.

Education
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Association for Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics

To serve as a global forum and network for the publication, dissemination and exchange of information and knowledge of eye diseases.

Health
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Oklahoma Optometric Association

The oklahoma association of optometric physicians is a professional association dedicated to advocacy, education, and other resources for oklahoma optometric physicians. mission statement: unite. empower. advocate.

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American Society of Ophthalmic Trauma Inc

Asot is committed to ensuring the highest quality care for patients who experience the unfortunate injuries sustained following ocular trauma. asot will host educational conferences, symposia, and scholarship opportunities to improve care…

Health
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Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
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American College of Eye Surgeons

The American College of Eye Surgeons (ACES) fundamental objective is to promote high quality standards in the area of opthalmic surgical services. ACES is committed to assuring a continuing awareness of the importance and value of high…

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Missouri Optometric Association

The missouri optometric association promotes the advancement of optometry by advocating for and educating its members and protecting access to the highest quality eye and vision care for the citizens of missouri.

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International Society for Eye Research

Organize conferences. meetings, and lectures to provide scientific communications on an international level for the general advancement of eye research and knowledge.

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International Society of Ocular Oncology Co Krystal Crowe

The primary purpose of the entity is to advance and promote the practice of ocular oncology by coordinating with general opthamology, oncology, pathology and allied sciences by the encouragement of research, by the improvement of teaching,…

Community Improvement
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American Ophthalmological Society

The mission of the american ophthalmological society is to promote excellence in patient care, education and research, to address essential issues in medicine, and to advance the art and science of ophthalmology.

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Opticians Association of America

The organization's mission is to promote and expand opticianry by being the single unified voice of america's opticians. in support of this mission, we are committed to promoting professional stature through leadership, education,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology and the most unlike its peers is Oklahoma Academy of Ophthalmology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%58%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%61%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
8%
4/53
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,512

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
17/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons — $1,729,700 · OtherCalifornia Academy of Eye Physicians and SurgeonsFlorida Society of Ophthalmology — $1,077,212 · OtherFlorida Society of OphthalmologyNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS INC — $1,055,555 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS INCCOLORADO OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $797,507 · OtherCOLORADO OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETYALABAMA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS — $689,000 · OtherALABAMA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANSWEST VIRGINIA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC — $573,708 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INCILLINOIS SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS — $545,349 · OtherILLINOIS SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONSWASHINGTON ACADEMY EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS — $429,000 · OtherMASS SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIAN & SURGEONS INC — $350,000 · Other+27 more — $2,940,614 · Other+27 moreTHE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION…IDAHO SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC — $779,453 · HealthIDAHO SOCI…New Hampshire Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons — $298,198 · HealthNew Hampsh…ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH — $144,301 · HealthALLIANCE F…GEORGIA SOCIETY OF OPTHALMOLOGY INC — $112,021 · HealthGEORGIA SO…+3 more — $50,850 · HealthAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS — $901,378 · EducationWYOMING OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $544,676 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY — $62,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementVirginia Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons Ed — $185,000 · PhilanthropyBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION — $73,000 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND — $5,500 · Human ServicesCONGRESSIONAL MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Public Benefit
Other$10,187,645Arts & Culture$2,000,000Health$1,384,823Education$901,378Community Improvement$641,676Philanthropy$185,000Human Services$78,500Public Benefit$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $2,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons — $1,729,700 over 9y, 62% of budgetFlorida Society of Ophthalmology — $1,077,212 over 8y, 32% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS INC — $1,055,555 over 3y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS — $901,378 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIDAHO SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC — $779,453 over 6y, 97% of budgetALABAMA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS — $689,000 over 9y, 39% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC — $573,708 over 5y, 63% of budgetILLINOIS SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS — $545,349 over 4y, 57% of budgetWYOMING OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $544,676 over 4y, 72% of budgetWASHINGTON ACADEMY EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS — $429,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetMASS SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIAN & SURGEONS INC — $350,000 over 7y, 62% of budgetNEBRASKA ACADEMY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS — $326,553 over 7y, 67% of budgetNew Hampshire Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons — $298,198 over 2y, 26% of budgetTENNESSEE ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $253,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetIOWA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC — $206,079 over 5y, 91% of budgetMINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $195,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetVirginia Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons Ed — $185,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetUTAH OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $165,055 over 3y, 70% of budgetALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH — $144,301 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY (FORMERLY NM OPHTHALMOLICAL SOCIE — $114,569 over 1y, 44% of budgetGEORGIA SOCIETY OF OPTHALMOLOGY INC — $112,021 over 2y, 22% of budgetMARYLAND SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC — $100,383 over 2y, 20% of budgetARKANSAS OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $82,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION — $73,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $47,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetKANSAS SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC — $46,392 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetTEXAS OPHTHALMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $37,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $35,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $33,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMAINE SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS — $32,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetVIRGINIA SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMICHIGAN SOCIETY OF EYE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $8,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Academy of Ophthalmology Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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