Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION
THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,805 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION ($6,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $86k
What The Minnesota Eye Foundation does
Mission
Vision research and education, eye care for the needy
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Minnesota Eye Foundation provides education programs for optometric and ophthalmology post-graduates assisting indigent communities.
$134,115 spent91% of program spendingIn 2023, minnesota eye foundation (mef) carried out its mission of enriching the quality of life of our community members through charitable outreach and continuing education in the field of vision care. Mef directly supports the delivery of eye care services to those in need and through educational opportunities for optometrists. Mef demonstrates this mission through a variety of programs including the vision project, perspectives in eyecare and strides 4 sight. Through the vision project (tvp) which provides medically necessary vision care evaluations and surgeries at no cost for uninsured, low-income patients in need, mef completed a total of 32 vision project surgeries and four (4) crosslinking procedures throughout 2023. Tvp is made possible through the assistance of volunteer surgeons, nurses, anesthetists, and team members who are willing to donate their time, expertise, equipment, and supplies. In 2023 the vision project's 36 procedures in total included 32 procedures which included glaucoma/cataract/cornea procedures and 4 cross-linking surgeries.through the fellowship program, mef was able to provide travel grants to its two (2) fellows serving in the spring 2023: md…
$7,990 spentof which $3,875 as grants5% of program spendingIn september 2023, mef hosted its fundraiser, strides 4 sight 5k run/walk, kids fun run and silent auction, at a fun central location at normandale lake bandshell. The organization's largest fundraising event secured 69 racers and over 12 fun run participants bring total to 81 participants ($1,920), 16 items in the silent auction bringing in $9,066.50 and sponsors totalling $23,249 and individual donations in the amount of $13,996mef was the recipient of an ascrs grant totaling $4,000 during 2023 (2 disbursements allocated) for the organizations efforts in providing cataract surgeries for individuals who do not have insurance.
$5,807 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $147,912.
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 2021 to 2022, from $228k to $175k (−23%).
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.
100% of THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $542.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE MINNESOTA EYE 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
THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 81% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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
THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MINNESOTA EYE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION?
- THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,805 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION ($6,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $9,805 in grants to THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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