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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$332k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$1.4M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What American Society of Retina Specialists Inc does

Mission

The mission of the american society of retina specialists is to provide a collegial open forum for education, to advance the understanding and treatment of vitreoretinal diseases, and to enhance the ability of its members to provide the highest quality of patient care.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The society offered its annual symposium on practice management open to all members with the goal of assisting its members in gleaning critical business strategies and maximizing practice.

    $269,833 spent$241,125 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $269,833.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($245k) Expenses 100 ($183k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 101 ($246k) Expenses 95 ($174k) Net assets 106 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 134 ($328k) Expenses 100 ($183k) Net assets 117 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 13 ($25k) Net assets 115 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 15 ($36k) Expenses 42 ($77k) Net assets 112 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 30 ($73k) Expenses 73 ($133k) Net assets 107 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 111 ($273k) Expenses 163 ($299k) Net assets 105 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 135 ($332k) Expenses 153 ($281k) Net assets 109 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (153)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

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 $1.5M to $4.5M (+200%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$4.5M
$3.9M
$3.9M
$3.8M
$3.9M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

27% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
’17
$72k
’18
$146k
’19
−$23k
’20
−$41k
’21
−$60k
’22
−$27k
’23
$50k
’24

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.

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Listed3233323233332831
Joined·+5+5+7+6+11+5+11
No longer listed·467511108
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 RETINA SPECIALISTS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

31
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • American Society of Retina Specialists · exempt
  • Foundation of the American Society of Retina Specialists · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC?
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,500 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing