California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION
CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $98,853 to it, the largest being The American Optometric Association ($98,853). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $12M
What California Optometric Association does
Mission
The mission of the California Optometric Association is to support and advance the profession of optometry to assure quality health care for all californians.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The California Optometric Association held multiple extensive continuing education opportunities and trade shows for optometrists for re-licensure and professional development. Optowest held two one day events: an online virtual event in april and august 2024. Monterey symposium was a live event held in person in 2024. There were six online two hour continuing education events held in january, march, may, july, september, and october 2024. Insights industry partner virtual program- june, august, and october. New od boot camps virtual and in-person program- june, july, august, and september.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $12M (+9%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION’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
CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Public Vision League · exempt
- California Vision Foundation · exempt
- California Optometric PAC Aka Cal-O · exempt
- Local Societies of the Coa PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION: 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 CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION?
- CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $98,853 to it, the largest being The American Optometric Association ($98,853). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $98,853 in grants to CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION?
- The American Optometric Association is the largest funder on record, with $98,853 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION 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.
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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