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American College of Eye Surgeons

American College of Eye Surgeons (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE JEFF & BONNIE WHITMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$20k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$289k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What American College of Eye Surgeons does

Mission

The American College of Eye Surgeons (ACES) fundamental objective is to promote high quality standards in the area of opthalmic surgical services. ACES is committed to assuring a continuing awareness of the importance and value of high quality ophthalmic surgical services among the public, governmental regulators, insurers, alternate delivery systems and others. Additionally, ACES hosts annual "Quality Surgery" educational programs, which provide a forum through which physicians are exposed to many of the newest techniques in surgical ophthalmology.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The organization co-sponsors along with American Board of Eye Surgeons and the Society for Excellence in Eyecare the Caribbean Eye Meeting to promote, encourage and enhance quality opthalmic surgical care for the benefit of all patients.

  2. ACES membership & Annual Meeting.

The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($205k) Expenses 100 ($215k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2018 Revenue 325 ($667k) Expenses 329 ($707k) Net assets 51 ($10k)2019 Revenue 282 ($578k) Expenses 235 ($504k) Net assets 426 ($84k)2020 Revenue 75 ($154k) Expenses 97 ($209k) Net assets 149 ($29k)2021 Revenue 67 ($138k) Expenses 65 ($140k) Net assets 139 ($27k)2022 Revenue 35 ($72k) Expenses 20 ($42k) Net assets 290 ($57k)2023 Revenue 47 ($96k) Expenses 16 ($35k) Net assets 600 ($118k)2024 Revenue 62 ($127k) Expenses 20 ($44k) Net assets 1022 ($201k)2025 Revenue 135 ($277k) Expenses 22 ($47k) Net assets 2192 ($432k)2026 Revenue 10 ($20k) Expenses 76 ($162k) Net assets 1468 ($289k)
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Revenue (10)Expenses (76)Net assets (1468)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $201k to $432k (+115%).

$68k
$33k
$90k
$30k
$27k
$57k
$118k
$201k
$432k
$290k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
−$40k
’18
$74k
’19
−$55k
’20
−$2k
’21
$30k
’22
$61k
’23
$83k
’24
$230k
’25
−$143k
’26
64
months of
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.

20172018201920252026
Listed1619191110
Joined·+3+1·+0
No longer listed·01·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of American College of Eye Surgeons’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.

Where its funders are

American College of Eye Surgeons draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.

TX

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like American College of Eye Surgeons

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American College of Eye Surgeons: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds American College of Eye Surgeons?
American College of Eye Surgeons (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE JEFF & BONNIE WHITMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does American College of Eye Surgeons have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to American College of Eye Surgeons.
Who is the largest funder of American College of Eye Surgeons?
THE JEFF & BONNIE WHITMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American College of Eye Surgeons find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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