Which funders back the same organizations as American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alcon Cares Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.

American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation

American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$406k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.2MInternational$500kYouth Development$120kArts & Culture$100kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$24kPhilanthropy$24kReligion$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 18 grants below total $331,438, the rows itemized in this filing. The $405,976 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,538 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $42k
$10k–50k11 grants · $189k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$14,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 22 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +64% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

+64%

Still filing today

68%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
6× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +233%
DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE
5× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +1%
FF
Foundation for Opthamological Care
2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +498% · 60% of their budget

Funded once

AS
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +64%
UH
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
one grant, 2018 · $102k
CG
CENTRAL GLOBAL VISION FUND INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +132% · 38% of their budget

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Eyecare for Humanity

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International Eye Foundation

International eye foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight by building capacity for quality, comprehensive and sustainable eye care services worldwide.

International

Retina Global

To provide sustainable solutions to the increasing number of people around the world afflicted with retinal diseases.

Health

Al Basar Usa

Our mission is to provide comprehensive eye health services, education, and support to underserved communities across africa and asia. we strive to: prevent blindness through early detection and treatment of eye diseases. improve access to…

Health

World Optometry Foundation

Health

Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health

Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc

Health

OneSight

OneSight is a leading global nonprofit 501(c)(3)organization dedicated to creating a world where lack of access to vision care is no longer a barrier to human achievement and potential. From one-day charitable clinics, serving those with…

Human Services

Sight Org

Sight.org exists to proclaim the gospel to the most unserved regions of Africa by combating blindness through surgery and prevention.

International

Eye Care Gambia Inc

To provide comprehensive quality eye care and ancillary service to people. this is strictly for charitable purposes for the medically needy in the area of ophthalmic care

Human Services

Eye Care International

The organization provides directly, or pays for, eye care services for the underserved population in El Salvador, including eye examinations, free eyeglasses, and eye surgeries.

Health

Haiti Eye Mission

Curing and preventing blindness: haiti eye mission is the only eye care team that travels to certain regions of the island of hispaniola with annual mission trips to fight preventable and treat curable blindness. the team provides eye…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vision Outreach International Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

19/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Improvement$2,000,000Health$671,388Other$691,720International$422,302Youth Development$120,000Philanthropy$47,000Human Services$43,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Alcon Cares IncTX17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home