Knights Templar Eye Foundation
Flower Mound, TX · EIN 52-0686958. Reported 202 grants totalling $20.2M to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Knights Templar Eye Foundation, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G410) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $74,865. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $80,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $2,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology | San Francisco, CA | $3,300,000 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $2,400,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Eye Foundation | Brentwood, TN | $2,109,800 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dean Mcgee Eye Institute | Oklahoma City, OK | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $1,146,250 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $810,000 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $769,630 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $689,991 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $677,343 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $590,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Inc | Gaithersburg, MD | $376,364 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $330,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $250,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| West Virginia University Research Corporation | Morgantown, WV | $209,134 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $200,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | Augusta, GA | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $180,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $180,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $180,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $180,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $169,905 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $169,137 | 5 | 2 | 2022 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $160,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Los Angeles, CA | $160,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $160,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Eye Institute | Bethesda, MD | $155,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The International Society for Eye Research | Coralville, IA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Indiana Univ Bloomington | Detroit, MI | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $100,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $99,921 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ohsu Opam | Portland, OR | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sutter Bay Hospitals | Sacramento, CA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Dayton | Dayton, OH | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tuscon, AZ | $86,405 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| International Society of Ocular Oncology | Fremont, WI | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Miami University | Oxford, OH | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Pittsburgh, PA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $80,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Tennessee | Memphis, TN | $80,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $79,857 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $69,266 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of North Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Duke University | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stanford Office of Research Admin | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Washington | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
44 of 60 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Children's Eye Foundation of Aapos (cef of Aapos)
SUPPORT OF THE STOP INFANT BLINDNESS IN AFRICA (SIBA) PROGRAM - Foundation of the American Academy of Opthalmology Eyecare America
AAO PEDIATRIC VR SIMULATION PROGRAM - Foundation of the American Academy of Opthalmology Pediatric Eye Registry
EYECARE AMERICA SENIOR EYECARE PROGRAM - Children's Eye Foundation of Aapos ( Cef of Aapos )
AAPOS ALL CHILDREN CAN SEE PROJECT "THE CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION" - Children's Hospital Los Angeles
RESEARCH GRANT - PREDICTIVE MEDICINE LAB RESEARCH GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 57 | $3,467,834 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 57 | $4,355,418 | $80,000 |
| 2023 | 43 | $6,181,489 | $80,000 |
| 2024 | 45 | $6,183,262 | $80,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
32% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $74,865 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Knights Templar Eye Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 45 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3201 Cross Timbers Rd Bldg 4 300, Flower Mound, TX, 75028.
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