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FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Foundation of the Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology does
Mission
To promote and administer charitable activities related to the field of ophthalmology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To promote and administer charitable activities related to the field of ophthalmology.
$4,500 spentof which $4,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,500.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $38k to $53k (+40%).
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.
74% of FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Amanda Maltry Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY’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
FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
51% 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 FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY.
“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
FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states 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.
Against its field
FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
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 Minnesota
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY?
- FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,250 in grants to FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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