Colorado · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY
MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53,000 to it, the largest being The William B ORourke Foundation ($53,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Mountain State Congress of Optometry does
Mission
Organization mission: to receive and maintain funds and apply the income and principal thereof to promote the well-being of mankind; to use, as means to that end education publication, research, the establishment and maintenance of optometric activities, agencies, and institutions, and to the aid of any such activities, and to utilize any other means, persons or agencies which shall further the purposes set forth by the organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Eye care education is promoted through an annual conference. Approximately 200 optometrists and 150 paraoptometrics attend the annual conference. The eduation topics relate to ocular disease specialty contact lenses, and vision therapy.
$229,863 spent$182,848 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $229,863.
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 2023 to 2024, from $199k to $270k (+36%).
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: 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY’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 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.
Board chair
Dan Hock
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY's grant income comes from Colorado 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
MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY: 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 MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY?
- MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53,000 to it, the largest being The William B ORourke Foundation ($53,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $53,000 in grants to MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY?
- The William B ORourke Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $53,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 1 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