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 of Pakistani-Descent of North America ($94,209). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Lions International South Side St Louis Clubshared funders
- The Chod Family Foundationportfolio match
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
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.
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.
- Lions International South Side St Louis Clubshared fundersMO · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- The Chod Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bjc Health System Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harlene & Marvin Wool Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Bessie Spielberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 20 20 Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- StLRB Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Crawford Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Hospitals East Communitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The St Louis Men's Group Against Cancerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paula and Rodger Riney Foundationportfolio 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.
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
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 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH 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.
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 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 of Pakistani-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 of Pakistani-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 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