Texas · Nonprofit
Hermann Eye Fund
Hermann Eye Fund (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,115 to it, the largest being ERNEST L KURTH JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($185,615). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Hermann Eye Fund's revenue fell 58% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundationshared funders
- The Kaneka Foundationportfolio match
- Harry S Moss Heart Trustportfolio match
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.
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.
1% of Hermann Eye Fund’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $153k → $28k.
From the IRS filings of Hermann Eye Fund’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
Hermann Eye Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 2% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Hermann Eye Fund's grant income comes from Texas 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- The Kaneka Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry S Moss Heart Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Medical Center Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coneway Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Parten Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taub Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Children's Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James and Molly Crownover Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Weingarten Schnitzer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chi St Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Hermann Eye Fund
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Memorial Hermann Health System · exempt
- Dept of Ophthalmology - Ut Health Houston · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hermann Eye Fund: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Hermann Eye Fund?
- Hermann Eye Fund (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,115 to it, the largest being ERNEST L KURTH JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($185,615). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hermann Eye Fund have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $200,115 in grants to Hermann Eye Fund, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hermann Eye Fund?
- ERNEST L KURTH JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hermann Eye Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing