California · Nonprofit
OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION
OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,210 to it, the largest being The Alcon Foundation Inc ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- The Morris Foundationshared funders
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio match
- 20 20 Questportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
78% of OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $215k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest International Council of Ophthalmology Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of OPHTHALMOLOGY 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
OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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: 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“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
OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 253 organizations that share them.
- The Morris Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 20 20 Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Academy of Ophthalmology Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Optometry Giving Sightportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Truth Justice and Compassionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Milbank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edmund J and Afton S Greenwell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alcon Cares Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glasser Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nayar Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like OPHTHALMOLOGY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPHTHALMOLOGY 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 OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION?
- OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,210 to it, the largest being The Alcon Foundation Inc ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $570,210 in grants to OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION?
- The Alcon Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPHTHALMOLOGY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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