Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA EYE BANK INC
GEORGIA EYE BANK INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,629 to it, the largest being The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc ($403,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $541k
- Net assets
- $23M
What Georgia Eye Bank Inc does
Mission
Improving vision and lives through transplantation of ocular tissue and cells, innovation, research, education, and collaboration to advance treatments and patient outcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, the eye bank provided over 2,000 sight-restoring corneas for transplant, many of which were provided for a reduced processing reimbursement or gratis. Registered with the u.s. Food & drug administration and accredited by the eye bank association of america, georgia eye bank, inc. Operates under strict medical, ethical and professional standards.
$6,283,257 spent$7,694,624 earned by the program93% of program spendingGeorgia eye bank, inc. Provides education and training regarding eye, organ and tissue donation to medical professionals, coroners/medical examiners and funeral home personnel. Donation awareness and public education are crticial components of the georgia eye bank mission. Non-transplantable tissues were provided for education, research and surgical training. Georgia eye bank, inc. Believes strongly that everyone in need should receive the gift of sight. Without compromising service, tissue availability or recipient safety within its service area, georgia eye bank, inc. Also supports international efforts to cure corneal blindness. From helping develop sustainable eye banks in other countries to providing low cost or gratis tissue to those in need, georgia eye bank, inc. Is dramatically impacting the lives of people around the world. To accomplish its mission, the eye bank depends on the generosity of financial donors and actively pursues foundation and corporation support for its activities.
$500,745 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,784,002.
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 2024 to 2025, from $23M to $26M (+10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Eric E Meinecke
Pres/CEO/trustee
Board chair
Richard L Shackelford
Chair/trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $131k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 GEORGIA EYE BANK INC’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
GEORGIA EYE BANK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 83% · 2019 93% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 73% · 2023 76% — 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
100% of GEORGIA EYE BANK INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k 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.
Government funding GEORGIA EYE BANK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$80k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GEORGIA EYE BANK INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEORGIA EYE BANK INC: 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 GEORGIA EYE BANK INC?
- GEORGIA EYE BANK INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,629 to it, the largest being The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc ($403,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA EYE BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $540,629 in grants to GEORGIA EYE BANK INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA EYE BANK INC?
- The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $403,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA EYE BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 5 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