Optometry Cares-The Aoa Foundation

Analysis

Optometry Cares-The Aoa Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in St Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Optometry Cares-The Aoa Foundation reported income of $513k and spending of $509k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $687k to $513k (-25%), an average of -7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Optometry Cares-The Aoa Foundation sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 68th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sparrows Nest of NW Mt ($513k), Berlin Community Day Care ($513k) and Actionn ($513k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $150k. At year end it held assets of $536k against liabilities of $64k, net assets of $472k.