Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC
WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,509,429 to it, the largest being ALICE AND RUSSELL TRUE FOUNDATION ($980,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Washington National Eye Center Inc does
Mission
Provide the best eye care to members of our community. Educate our ophthalmology residents to the highest standards of excellence in care of ophthalmology today. Explore and dissiminate new discoveries that will encourage possible eye care...
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide the best eye care to members of our community. Educate our ophthalmology residents to the highest standards of excellence in care of ophthalmology today.
$1,473,627 spentof which $10,642 as grants102% of program spendingThe purpose of this item is to provide a charitable contribution to the prevention of blindness society.
$-33,647 spent-2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,439,980.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $911k to $1.2M (+37%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 6%. 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 5 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
Maxwell Helfgott Md
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $180k → $156k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $75k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC’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
WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2017 56% · 2018 53% · 2019 72% · 2020 56% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Washington National Eye Center Foun · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC: 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 WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC?
- WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,509,429 to it, the largest being ALICE AND RUSSELL TRUE FOUNDATION ($980,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,509,429 in grants to WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC?
- ALICE AND RUSSELL TRUE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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