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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,109,431 to it, the largest being THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation does
Mission
The ascrs founation is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports physician education and provides humanitarian cataract surgery in the u.s. And abroad. Through its programs and partnerships the foundation works to maximize the benefits of modern ophthalmology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Charitable/humanitarian eye care: support foundation sponsored charitable and humanitarian eye care efforts in the u.s. And in the developing world. The ascrs foundation provides physician education both in the united states and internationally. In the u.s., the foundation helps to support the development and delivery of education program content at the ascrs annual meeting, while overseas the foundation supports wetlab training and board review courses for ethiopia's 5 residency training programs.
$553,598 spentof which $375,976 as grants95% of program spendingResident excellence awards; traditionally provides ten 1,000 awards annually to enable ophthalmology residents exhibiting exemplary performance to attend the ascrs annual meeting. The awards are made following a competetive application process. The categories for consideration include research,patient care, leadership, and education.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants2% of program spendingYoung eye surgeons international service grants: these grants are intended to inspire young eye surgeons to become involved with global eye care on a long-term basis and affords the opportunity for the grantee to participate in health care systems, including teaching institutions and community programs, in developing countries. The grants provide funding for grantees to initiate a global service project, including the development of a customized international volunteer plan providing the opportunity for a young eye surgeon to learn first-hand the intricacies behind global eyecare efforts.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $583,598.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8.1M to $6.1M (−24%).
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.
90% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Susan Macdonald Md
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $102k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY 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 SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
46% 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 SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 60% · 2019 71% · 2020 62% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 49% — 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 SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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 SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $486k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,109,431 to it, the largest being THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,109,431 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION?
- THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 19 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing