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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $567,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC ($567,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$578k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$568k
Net assets
$520k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($801k) Expenses 100 ($731k) Net assets 100 ($310k)2018 Revenue 100 ($801k) Expenses 102 ($747k) Net assets 117 ($364k)2019 Revenue 106 ($848k) Expenses 113 ($826k) Net assets 125 ($387k)2020 Revenue 98 ($788k) Expenses 104 ($762k) Net assets 133 ($413k)2021 Revenue 84 ($675k) Expenses 89 ($649k) Net assets 141 ($438k)2022 Revenue 103 ($827k) Expenses 96 ($702k) Net assets 181 ($563k)2023 Revenue 91 ($726k) Expenses 98 ($719k) Net assets 183 ($569k)2024 Revenue 83 ($666k) Expenses 92 ($674k) Net assets 180 ($560k)2025 Revenue 72 ($578k) Expenses 85 ($619k) Net assets 167 ($520k)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (85)Net assets (167)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’17
$54k
’18
$23k
’19
$26k
’20
$26k
’21
$125k
’22
$7k
’23
−$9k
’24
−$40k
’25
2.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $65k → $73k.

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Government funding NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $482 on record.

State$482
Top programs
  • DEDICATED$482

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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC?
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $567,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC ($567,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $567,500 in grants to NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC?
AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $567,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL ACADEMY OF OPTICIANRY INC 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 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing