Maryland · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,328,113 to it, the largest being THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC ($734,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What International Eye Foundation does
Mission
International Eye Foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight by building capacity for quality, comprehensive and sustainable eye care services worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Eye hospital leadership, management, and sustainability program:ief's sightreach leadership, management, and sustainability program combines state-of-the-art clinical eye care with leadership, management, and sustainability practices to create a social-entrepreneurial approach to eye care delivery. Ief assists eye hospitals in the private, social, and public sectors in designing and implementing strategies that improve availability, access, efficiency, and quality of care. They also increase revenue and the capacity to grow their services. (continued on schedule o, page 41)since 1999, ief's partnership network has grown to over 73 eye hospitals and clinics in 23 countries. Ief and our partners have increased access to high-volume, low-cost services, examined more than 11 million persons, performed over 735,000 treatments and surgeries, increased net positive revenue, and served all income groups, including the poorest. Ief's expertise includes training and mentoring hospital teams in change management strategies, program design, implementation, and evaluation. The foundation is expanding its support for partner hospitals through the growth of vision centers, standardizing…
$202,880 spentof which $112,794 as grants56% of program spendingChild blindness program - 2018-2023:the united states agency for international development funds the child blindness program, supporting expanding access to quality eye health services for vulnerable children who are visually impaired or at risk of blindness. The program supports non-governmental eye organizations and eye hospitals in low- and middle-income countries to increase the number of children provided with high-quality care and advance global knowledge, best practices, and innovative approaches to pediatric eye health programs through a worldwide competitive grants program. (continued on schedule o, page 44) usaid awarded a contract to integrative sciences, llc (intsci) to prime a $11.4 million grants-under-contract program (2018-2023) with a sub-contract to International Eye Foundation's technical advisory group (tag) in the amount of $1,641,945 (amended) to provide technical support to grant awards over five years. In fy 2024, the tag supported 58 grants (average award amount of $200,000 over two years) to 31 organizations in 27 countries across southeast asia, africa, europe, latin america, and the caribbean. The ief/tag provided technical assistance to these grantees…
$82,753 spent23% of program spendingPublic health initiatives - onchocerciasis:ief pioneered the community-based mectizan distribution program to control onchocerciasis (river blindness) in cameroon starting in 1997. Ief supported community-based mectizan distribution with the adamaoua and south provinces provincial governments and the national onchocerciasis task force, completing its grant obligations for mectizan distribution in fy 2023. Since 1997, ief directly facilitated treatment for 17.7 million persons with donations of mectizan tablets from merck and company, inc. In fy 2024, ief assisted the ministry of health in administering funding for an epidemiological study to determine the impact of mectizan (continued on schedule o, page 45) distribution on eliminating onchocerciasis financed by the organization de coordination pour la lutte contre les endmies en afrique centrale (oceac) over three years. From 2022-2024, the centre de recherche sur les filarioses et autres maladies tropicales (crfilmt) completed a serology survey using ov16_oncvo enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) kits. The results reported in fy 2024 indicate a reduction in the seroprevalence of onchocerciasis from 70% reported in 1996 to…
$75,856 spentof which $22,751 as grants21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $361,489.
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.
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 $3.0M to $2.3M (−23%).
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 5% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 8% · 2021 45% · 2022 59% · 2023 45% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
John Barrows
President & CEO
Board chair
Kathryn D Leckey
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $34k → $274k.
4 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 29% · 2018 39% · 2019 53% · 2020 42% · 2021 66% · 2022 71% · 2023 69% — 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
37% of INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL EYE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
12% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION: 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 INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION?
- INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,328,113 to it, the largest being THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC ($734,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,328,113 in grants to INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION?
- THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $734,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 44 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