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HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION

HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,208,358 to it, the largest being ANDREW DELANEY FOUNDATION ($390,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$388k
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$2.7M
17/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Houston Eye Associates Foundation does

Mission

Houston Eye Associates Foundation is committed to preserving and restoring sight with comprehensive eye care surgeries, medications, and ancillary services for individuals in financial hardship; and supporting education and research initiatives for the benefit of the community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of Houston Eye Associates Foundation is to provide medical and surgical eye care services to adults and children who are in financial hardship.

    $443,089 spentof which $202,561 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $443,089.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($445k) Expenses 100 ($374k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 100 ($446k) Expenses 125 ($465k) Net assets 89 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 102 ($455k) Expenses 159 ($595k) Net assets 96 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 336 ($1.5M) Expenses 170 ($635k) Net assets 140 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 64 ($287k) Expenses 138 ($516k) Net assets 141 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 157 ($701k) Expenses 185 ($691k) Net assets 121 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 46 ($207k) Expenses 176 ($658k) Net assets 127 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 87 ($388k) Expenses 159 ($593k) Net assets 119 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (159)Net assets (119)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 2019 to 2020, from $2.5M to $3.5M (+38%).

$2.4M
$2.2M
$2.5M
$3.5M
$3.5M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$2.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

47% of HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,456 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
’17
−$19k
’18
−$141k
’19
$862k
’20
−$229k
’21
$10k
’22
−$451k
’23
−$205k
’24
2.9
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.

Chief executive

Ellen Efsic

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed1716161822131413
Joined·+0+1+5+4+2+1+0
No longer listed·11301101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $130k → $113k.

3 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES 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.

How concentrated its funding is

HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

31% 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 HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION.

32%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 28% · 2019 31% · 2020 25% · 2021 28% · 2022 46% · 2023 44% — 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.

How long its funders stay

41% of HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.2M to it.

Operating margin−53% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 14%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

37%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION?
HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,208,358 to it, the largest being ANDREW DELANEY FOUNDATION ($390,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,208,358 in grants to HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION?
ANDREW DELANEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing