California · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,600 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMIC PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY INC ($230,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Incshared funders
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio match
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $158k → $172k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $64M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 25% · 2019 31% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 40% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 300 organizations that share them.
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Retinal Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Pharmacopeial Conventionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Osteopathic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Medical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bradley Impact Fund Incshared fundersWI · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $421k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$394k
- Department of Defense$27k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- The Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology · exempt
- American Academy of Ophthalmology Ces Fund · exempt
- American Academy of Ophthalmology Inc PAC · exempt
- Academy Services Inc and Subsidiaries · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC?
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,600 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMIC PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY INC ($230,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,264,600 in grants to AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC?
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMIC PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY INC is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing