· Public charity
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation
The ascrs founation is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports physician education and provides humanitarian cataract surgery in the u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $331,438 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $405,976 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,538 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUNDACION ELENA BARRAQUER | $100,000 |
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC | $30,000 |
| JOHN A MORAN EYE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CARIDAD CENTER INC | $19,500 |
| SERVANTS FOR SIGHT | $17,325 |
| DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE | $15,863 |
| VISION IS PRICELESS COUNCIL INC | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CLEAR VISION FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| OPERATION SIGHT | $13,500 |
| I CARE SAN ANTONIO | $13,000 |
| KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS | $10,850 |
| CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC | $9,500 |
| EYE CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA FOUNDATI | $7,450 |
| SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC | $7,450 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC6× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +233%
DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE5× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +1%- FFFoundation for Opthamological Care2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +498% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +64%
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2018 · $102k
PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vision Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Assistance Network Housing Development Corporation. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 55% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Respectacle Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SIGHT ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Opthamological Care ↗
- Who funds FUNDACION ELENA BARRAQUER INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS FOR SIGHT ↗
- Who funds Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition ↗
- Who funds VISION OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds I CARE SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL GLOBAL VISION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISION IS PRICELESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Assistance Network Housing Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAR VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alcon Cares Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.