National Glaucoma Society

Analysis

National Glaucoma Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Andover, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, National Glaucoma Society reported income of $106k and spending of $96k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $220k to $106k (-52%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, National Glaucoma Society sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Care Project Inc ($106k), Inside Health Institute ($106k) and Iowa Service Dogs ($106k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.6% and program service revenue 45% of the total. At year end it held assets of $28k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $28k.