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ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$167k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Association for Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics does

Mission

To serve as a global forum and network for the publication, dissemination and exchange of information and knowledge of eye diseases.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides an opportunity for scientific discussions and conducts meetings.

    $190,341 spent$133,752 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $190,341.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($239k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2021 Revenue 32 ($76k) Expenses 6 ($7k) Net assets 83 ($169k)2024 Revenue 99 ($236k) Expenses 179 ($207k) Net assets 82 ($166k)2025 Revenue 1 ($3k) Expenses 2 ($2k) Net assets 82 ($167k)
2019202120242025
Revenue (1)Expenses (2)Net assets (82)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 2024 to 2025, from $166k to $167k (+0%).

$203k
$169k
$166k
$167k
2019202120242025
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.

2019
2021
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

26% of ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 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.

$123k
’19
$69k
’21
$29k
’24
$662
’25
888
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.

2019202120242025
Listed13121212
Joined···+0
No longer listed···0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

Funder
'19
'21
total
$20k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS’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

ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

MD

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

’19
’21
North Carolina out of state home

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

Against its field

ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · above the median
Months of reserve887.7mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−52% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS?
ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS?
BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2025), 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