California · Nonprofit
CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK
CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 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
- $389k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Charity of the Eye Care Network does
Mission
We make access to vision care possible for the underserved population in the united states through advocacy, education, outreach, and connection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mobile program:ecn purpose's mobile program is dedicated to improving access to essential vision care by facilitating vision screenings and eye exams to underserved populations. Through our partnerships with other non-profit organizations, ecn purpose utilizes its mobile eye health unit to engage with communities in need. The mobile eye health unit is a fully equipped optometric doctor's office on wheels with the latest technologically advanced tools. Our fully equipped mobile health unit allows us to meet people where they are and bring care directly to those who may not otherwise have access to vision services. Ecn purpose has hosted approximately 35 mobile events, reaching over 1,500 attendees.with our volunteer optometrists and optometric students, we facilitate professional eye care services and connections to necessary resources for eye health to individuals in need. We have recruited over 62 dedicated volunteers who assist with vision services, distributing glasses, and supporting fundraising efforts. We provide hands-on, real-life experience for our optometric student to apply skills they have learned in our training program at our mobile program events. This assists our…
$234,241 spent75% of program spendingEducation program:ecn purpose is dedicated to promoting eye health education. Many individuals are unaware of the crucial role eye health contributes to overall health. To bridge this gap, ecn purpose, through participation in health fairs, nonprofit partner events, and community programs, delivers direct lessons and hands-on activities to raise awareness about eye health. Ecn purpose also provides accessible educational resources, including in-house produced videos, engaging social media posts, and free downloadable materials with some available in english, spanish, and vietnamese.ecn purpose has published more than 600 informative social media posts and clip videos, produced 12 full-length educational videos, and has made available multilingual pamphlets outlining signs that indicate the need for an eye exam at several events reaching over 1,500 attendees. Ecn purpose is expanding its educational outreach by introducing in-house classes for homeschooled students, incorporating interactive learning experiences to deepen their understanding of eye health and vision care. This also educates young students on the eye care industry opportunities, therefore expanding the potential for…
$80,054 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $314,295.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.2M to $3.0M (−4%).
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.
78% of CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Paul T Urrea Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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 CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK’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 CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK'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. $30k 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.
Against its field
CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK
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.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK: 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 CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK?
- CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 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 CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARITY OF THE EYE CARE NETWORK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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