Missouri · Nonprofit
MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,209 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OFPAKISTANI-DESCENT OF NORTH AMERICA ($94,209). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation does
Mission
The vision of the organization is to be the global partnership model for how eye banking and charitable vision services can most effectively serve people and communities. The organization continues to be affiliated with the missouri lions but maintains its own separate board of directors (directors). The organization conducts business in missouri, kansas and central illinois. Support and revenues are predominantly earned from processing fees and public support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Eye bank operations - the organization conducts eye bank operations in missouri, kansas and illinois to retrieve, process and distribute the highest quality donor eye tissue to corneal surgeons and their patients. Part of its eye bank operations includes its donor services center which is focused on providing the quality and care needed to help eye and tissue banks facilitate each donor's gift by speaking with medical facilities and approaching donor families for consent.
$9,428,776 spent$10,201,146 earned by the program99% of program spendingSupport of ocular research and outreach - the organization is dedicated to providing eye tissue to research projects that work to determine the causes of eye disease and to find cures for these debilitating conditions. In addition, the organization provides grant opportunities to organizations which perform ocular research or outreach regarding ocular diseases.
$86,200 spentof which $86,200 as grants1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,514,976.
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 2018 to 2019, from $5.8M to $7.8M (+35%).
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.
0% of MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $2k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $775k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation Saving Sight). These are real filings, and they are not money MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH 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
MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
97% 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 MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
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
MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$49k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vital Tears LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,209 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OFPAKISTANI-DESCENT OF NORTH AMERICA ($94,209). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,209 in grants to MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OFPAKISTANI-DESCENT OF NORTH AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $94,209 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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