Tennessee · Nonprofit
OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE VISION COUNCIL ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $635k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $317k
What Opticians Association of America does
Mission
The organization's mission is to promote and expand opticianry by being the single unified voice of america's opticians. In support of this mission, we are committed to promoting professional stature through leadership, education, legislative representation and communication.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Organization ceased all operations and is filing a final return for the year-ending 6/30/25
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Provide continuing education and career training to opticians. Keep members abreast of current developments, products and methods. Monitor legislative and regulatory activities and disseminate information to members.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $202k to $317k (+57%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $717k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Board of Opticianry and National Contact Lens Examiners Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA’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
OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: 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 OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE VISION COUNCIL ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
- Who is the largest funder of OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- THE VISION COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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