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Glaukos Charitable Foundation

Glaukos Charitable Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($34). 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
$346k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$34
Net assets
$75k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Glaukos Charitable Foundation does

Mission

Consistent with our corporate mission to deliver transformative therapies for glaucoma, corneal, and retinal diseases worldwide, we created the Glaukos Charitable Foundation as a philanthropic organization dedicated to helping people in need, in our own community and beyond.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. CAPOC - OC Food Bank

    $51,835 spent
    14% of program spending

  2. Stand Up to Cancer

    $43,145 spent
    12% of program spending

  3. Ophthalmology Foundation

    $35,000 spent
    10% of program spending

  4. Wills Eye Foundation

    $30,500 spent
    8% of program spending

  5. The Foundation of the AAO

    $30,000 spent
    8% of program spending

  6. Employee matches

    $26,375 spent
    7% of program spending

  7. Beyond Blindness

    $23,000 spent
    6% of program spending

  8. Foundation Fighting Blindness

    $20,000 spent
    6% of program spending

  9. UCI Foundation

    $10,000 spent
    3% of program spending

  10. ASCRS Foundation

    $10,000 spent
    3% of program spending

  11. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

    $10,000 spent
    3% of program spending

  12. Pet Project Foundation

    $10,000 spent
    3% of program spending

  13. Firm Foundation Youth Home (Gigi's cottage)

    $10,000 spent
    3% of program spending

  14. Human Options

    $5,500 spent
    2% of program spending

  15. Advanced Centers for Eyecare

    $5,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  16. Carroll Center for the Blind

    $5,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  17. The Priority Center

    $5,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  18. Boys and Girls Club of San Clemente

    $5,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  19. Armenian Eye Care Project

    $4,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  20. Indiana Blind Children's Foundation

    $3,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  21. Combat Blindness Int'l

    $3,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  22. Operation Sight

    $2,800 spent
    1% of program spending

  23. Australia New Zealand Eye Foundation

    $2,500 spent
    1% of program spending

  24. NCL Capistrano Coast

    $2,500 spent
    1% of program spending

  25. You Run This Town Foundation - OC

    $2,500 spent
    1% of program spending

  26. Pier Pride Foundation - San Clemente

    $2,500 spent
    1% of program spending

  27. Aliso Viejo Girls Softball

    $1,500 spent
    0% of program spending

  28. Lifeline Australia

    $1,222 spent
    0% of program spending

  29. Adult Care Center of Roanoke

    $1,000 spent
    0% of program spending

The 29 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $361,877.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($144k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2021 Revenue 235 ($338k) Expenses 219 ($204k) Net assets 332 ($192k)2022 Revenue 74 ($106k) Expenses 292 ($272k) Net assets 44 ($25k)2023 Revenue 129 ($185k) Expenses 171 ($160k) Net assets 88 ($51k)2024 Revenue 150 ($215k) Expenses 182 ($169k) Net assets 168 ($97k)2025 Revenue 240 ($346k) Expenses 395 ($368k) Net assets 130 ($75k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (240)Expenses (395)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

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 $192k to $25k (−87%).

$58k
$192k
$25k
$51k
$97k
$75k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Glaukos Charitable Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’20
$134k
’21
−$166k
’22
$26k
’23
$46k
’24
−$22k
’25
2.4
months of
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

Alex Thurman

Chair of the Board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed89999
Joined·+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·1100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18 → $16.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

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 Glaukos Charitable 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Glaukos Charitable Foundation'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. $34 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Glaukos Charitable Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Glaukos Charitable 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 California

Glaucoma Research and Education Group73%Almaden Super Lions Charitable Foundation72%Del Sol Lions Foundation72%Elk Grove Lions Foundation Inc71%Glendale Kiwanis Foundation71%Community Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired71%Diablo Valley Veterans Foundation71%Culver City Rotary Community Foundation70%

Nationally

Glaucoma Research and Education Group73%Scope Foundation Inc73%The Eye Cancer Foundation Inc73%GCOS A Helping Hand Foundation72%Greenville Lion Club Activities Fund Inc72%Almaden Super Lions Charitable Foundation72%Beauty of Sight Foundation72%Del Sol Lions Foundation72%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MA
CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Glaukos Corporation · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Glaukos Charitable Foundation?
Glaukos Charitable Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($34). 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 Glaukos Charitable Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34 in grants to Glaukos Charitable Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Glaukos Charitable Foundation?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Glaukos Charitable Foundation 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 2020–2025), 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