Washington · Nonprofit
DRY EYE FOUNDATION
DRY EYE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,797 to it, the largest being KEN AND ANN DOUGLAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Dry Eye Foundation does
Mission
Improving quality of life for people with dry eye disease
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Dry eye in dc:def organized its first national conference, dry eye in dc. Def brought 30 advocates to capitol hill to raise awareness about dry eye and advocate for patient priorities with their representatives. Def presented at the naevr dry eye disease congressional briefing and hosted a reception. Finally, def organized an all-day hybrid symposium with patient and doctor panels. 50 people attended in-person and over 750 people viewed the livestream or watched recordings on def's youtube channel. Def's dry eye in dc budget included travel scholarships for nine advocates.
$78,372 spent44% of program spendingCommunity service:def served 105 clients through its helpline peer counseling program. Def hosted 82 support group meetings with approximately 124 unique attendees. Def's various medical support groups on facebook served 18,000 members. Def also provided asneeded support to over 175 clients through its phone and email resource line for safety concerns and practical guidance. Def exhibited at two national/international conferences to raise awareness amongst eye care professionals and distribute literature about the foundation's community support programs.
$49,882 spent28% of program spendingEducation and safety:def's education and safety programs include dryeyezone.com, mybigfatsclerallens.org, and eyedropsafety.org. Def produced a dry eye patient guidebook, a scleral lens patient handbook, and mydryeyerx, a resource on prescription drug access and adherence. Def tracked product alerts, recalls, and warning letters for eye drops and scleral lens solutions. It presented data to the fda's cder pase program. Def exhibited at three national/international conferences to share safety information. Def's education and safety content websites were viewed over 43,000 times in 2025 and its education and safety videos on youtube gained over 55,000 views.
$48,570 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $176,824.
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 2024 to 2025, from $36k to $17k (−53%).
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.
98% of DRY EYE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Aidan Moore
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $213 → $498.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 DRY EYE FOUNDATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
DRY EYE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DRY EYE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
DRY EYE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
DRY EYE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters 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 DRY EYE FOUNDATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DRY EYE FOUNDATION: 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 DRY EYE FOUNDATION?
- DRY EYE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,797 to it, the largest being KEN AND ANN DOUGLAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRY EYE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $53,797 in grants to DRY EYE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRY EYE FOUNDATION?
- KEN AND ANN DOUGLAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST 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 DRY EYE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 6 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