· Public charity
Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry
The ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES OF OPTOMETRY (asco) advances optometric education and research to enhance the health and well-being of the public.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES OF OPTOMETRY’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $130,959 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $146,249 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,290 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 $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY SALUS AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $25,181 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $24,407 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY AT MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY | $22,222 |
| PACIFIC UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $9,934 |
| SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $8,498 |
| ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $8,302 |
| NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $7,192 |
| HERBERT WERTHEIM SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY & VISION SCIENCE UC BERKELEY | $7,113 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY | $6,468 |
| SUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $6,132 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY | $5,510 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SUSALUS UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2025 · $172k · revenue +14%
- MBMARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2025 · $151k · revenue +144%
- PUPACIFIC UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2025 · $64k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +16%
- FSFERRIS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $7k
- SOSouthwestern Ohio 4-H Camp Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +148%
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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A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Samuel merritt university educates students to become highly skilled and compassionate health care professionals who positively transform the experience of care in diverse communities.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.
The exempt purpose of the pennsylvania college of optometry foundation (foundation) is to support salus university, a 501(c)(3) public charity, through fundraising endeavors and the holding of investments.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University and the most unlike its peers is Southwestern Ohio 4-H Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 SALUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southern College of Optometry ↗
- Who funds Illinois College of Optometry ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA OPHTHALMOLOGY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southwestern Ohio 4-H Camp Inc ↗
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: American Academy of Optometry Foundation Inc · Marco Family Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry 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.
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% 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.