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ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS

ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 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 FY2025
$146k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$300k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Assn of Optometric Contact Lens Educators does

Mission

Foster optometric faculty education c/l

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Held annual educational workshop and provided educational materials to optometric contact lens faculty of all north american schools and colleges of optometry

    $106,986 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $106,986.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($103k) Expenses 100 ($81k) Net assets 100 ($175k)2023 Revenue 121 ($124k) Expenses 101 ($82k) Net assets 124 ($217k)2024 Revenue 118 ($122k) Expenses 93 ($75k) Net assets 151 ($264k)2025 Revenue 142 ($146k) Expenses 136 ($110k) Net assets 171 ($300k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (142)Expenses (136)Net assets (171)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 2023 to 2024, from $217k to $264k (+21%).

$175k
$217k
$264k
$300k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’22
$42k
’23
$47k
’24
$35k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Dr Dawn Lam

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'22
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 ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS’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 ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS'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. $10k 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

ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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 ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS?
ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 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 ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS.
Who is the largest funder of ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSN OF OPTOMETRIC CONTACT LENS EDUCATORS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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