Missouri · Nonprofit
WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC
WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,031 to it, the largest being OPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT ($182,031). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $534k
What World Council of Optometry Inc does
Mission
To facilitate the development of optometry around the world and support optometrists in promoting eye health and vision care as a human right through advocacy, education, policy development and humanitarian outreach.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Worked to raise awareness globally and provide resources to optometrists. Published the wco competency framework for optometry to assist educational institutions in creating and updating curriculum to meet a minimum scope of practice. Offered annual leadership course with representation from all 6 wco regions enabling approximately 30 participants to acquire leadership and advocacy tools to enable them to effect change at both policy and practice levels. Published survey of members regarding the variations of practice, regulation, and human resources between countries. Continued educational initiatives to create awareness around myopia, dry eye disease, and presbyopia care.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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 $1.7M to $512k (−69%).
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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $65k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $293k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest World Optometry Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY 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
WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
100% 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 WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- World Optometry Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY 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 WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC?
- WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,031 to it, the largest being OPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT ($182,031). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $207,031 in grants to WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC?
- OPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT is the largest funder on record, with $182,031 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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