Texas · Nonprofit
Hermann Eye Fund
Hermann Eye Fund (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,115 to it, the largest being ERNEST L KURTH JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($185,615). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $914k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $350k
- Net assets
- $28M
What Hermann Eye Fund does
Mission
Hermann Eye Fund provides funding for: patient services; indigent care; teaching and training residents, fellows, interns, medical students, nurses, ophthalmic assistants, allied health personnel, practicing physicians and optometrists; and scientific research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hermann Eye Fund provides funding for indigent patient care to patients with eye problems.
$248,232 spent100% of program spendingHermann Eye Fund provides funds to the university of texas department of ophthalmology to aid in research, education of students and faculty, community service, and patient education and care.
Funding for research of eye-related subjects. The research is done continually with assistance from the department of ophthalmology at the university of texas medical center at houston.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $248,232.
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 2018 to 2019, from $17M to $36M (+113%).
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 (82% 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
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.
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 53% 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 98% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Against its field
Hermann Eye Fund's revenue fell 58% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Hermann Eye Fund
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 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Hermann Eye Fund?
- Hermann Eye Fund (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,115 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 4 organizations giving $350,115 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 4 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