Texas · Private foundation
The Alcon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2024
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 113
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Alcon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 98 | $5.5M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $5.0M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 96 | $5.5M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 102 | $3.8M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 113 | $5.6M | 95% |
| FY2019 | 69 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcon Children's Vision Center | $4,612,500 | 4 | 100% |
| Project Orbis International Inc | $1,930,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology | $1,025,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Helen Keller International | $1,013,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Visionspring Inc | $785,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Eyelliance Inc | $750,000 | 4 | 24% |
| International Eye Foundation | $734,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Mercy Ships International | $640,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Surgical Eye Expeditions International Inc | $510,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Sightlife | $510,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 178 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Alcon Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 168 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · United Way of Tarrant County · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Morris Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee
How this is measured
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About The Alcon Foundation Inc
- How much does The Alcon Foundation Inc give?
- The Alcon Foundation Inc reported 99 grants totaling $5,505,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 113 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Alcon Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (38%), International (28%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Alcon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Alcon Children's Vision Center ($4.6M), Project Orbis International Inc ($1.9M), The Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology ($1.0M).
- Does The Alcon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Alcon Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Alcon Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Sid W Richardson Foundation, Amon G Carter Foundation.
- Where is The Alcon Foundation Inc based?
- The Alcon Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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