· Public charity
Eye Surgeons International
This organization raises funds from the public to provide and facilitate vision saving medical care to underserved people in the USA and abroad via volunteer ophthalmologists optometrists and supporting staff who provide direct care as well as train local providers.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Vision Volunteers | $6,825 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $36k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $9k to organizations and $27k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Design and engineering services to an African non-profit organization that specializes in design and improvements to health care facilities (Engineering Ministries International) · Medical and surgical health care for needy patients during intensive Eye Care Camps and ongoing routine care
How this is measured
1 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eye Surgeons International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eye Surgeons International. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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