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AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION

AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,877 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$397k
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$441k
Grants received
$481k
Net assets
3/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%

Against its field

AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($293k) Expenses 100 ($280k) Net assets 100 ($292k)2018 Revenue 105 ($306k) Expenses 83 ($233k) Net assets 124 ($362k)2019 Revenue 87 ($254k) Expenses 102 ($286k) Net assets 116 ($337k)2020 Revenue 90 ($263k) Expenses 77 ($216k) Net assets 131 ($383k)2021 Revenue 123 ($361k) Expenses 93 ($261k) Net assets 167 ($486k)2022 Revenue 54 ($157k) Expenses 110 ($306k) Net assets 111 ($325k)2023 Revenue 96 ($280k) Expenses 85 ($237k) Net assets 129 ($376k)2024 Revenue 136 ($397k) Expenses 107 ($301k) Net assets 165 ($481k)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (107)Net assets (165)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
17
$74k
18
$32k
19
$48k
20
$100k
21
$149k
22
$43k
23
$96k
24
8.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $26k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION’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 GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION.

40%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 60% · 2023 75%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

20% of AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

59% of AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $183k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

IL
NY
CO
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Organizations like AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 38 states

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CA
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FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Glaucoma Society Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION: 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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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 GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,877 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $440,877 in grants to AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN GLAUCOMA SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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