Kentucky · Nonprofit
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $166,238 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC ($166,238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $166k
- Net assets
- $0
What Educational Foundation in Ophthalmic Optics does
Mission
To promote development of study in the field of ophthalmic optics.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Efoo was formed to receive, manage, and administer donations relating to educational activities in the field of ophthalmic optics and subjects germane thereto; to render financial assistance to opticianry-related educational programs; to render financial assistance to institutions of higher learning for purposes of providing opportunities to students of opticianry.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2k to $0 (−100%).
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.
100% of EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Nicole Mcginnis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $85k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS’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 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS's revenue fell 72% between 2018 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS: 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 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS?
- EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $166,238 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC ($166,238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $166,238 in grants to EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS?
- AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $166,238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN OPHTHALMIC OPTICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), 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