California · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,297,100 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMIC PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY INC ($255,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $115M
What American Academy of Ophthalmology Inc does
Mission
The mission of the american academy of ophthalmology is to protect sight and empower lives by serving as an advocate for patients and the public, leading ophthalmic education, supporting research, and advancing the profession of ophthalmology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The american academy of ophthalmology, with a global community of 32,000, is the largest trade organization in the world for ophthalmologists. We are eye physicians and surgeons, dedicated to protecting sight and empowering lives. As the leader in ophthalmic education, the academy offers a wealth of materials to support our physicians in every aspect of practice - including the online ophthalmic news and education (one) network, practice management tools, the innovative iris registry (intelligent research in sight), and eye health resources for patients and the public. We produce the largest annual ophthalmic convention in the world, which for the 2024 annual meeting (held in-person october 18 - october 21 in chicago, il) brought together domestic physicians, international physicians, other health professionals, exhibitors, and guests to share the latest advances and technology in ophthalmic medicine. We relentlessly advocate for the highest quality eye care, representing ophthalmologists and their patients before the government and other organizations that influence eye care policy.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $90M to $107M (+19%).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
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 20% 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 80% 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.
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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
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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 $1,297,100 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMIC PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY INC ($255,000). 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 $1,297,100 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 $255,000 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 20 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing