Eye and Contact Lens Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136203613
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Centennial, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3037706048
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,914
- Expenses
- $245,912
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINE PRESCOTT MD PHD (PRESIDENT)
- JOANN J KANG MD (VP/PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTINE PRESCOTT MD PHD (PRESIDENT)
- VISHAL JHANJI MD (IMMEDIATE PA)
- BENNIE H JENG MD (PAST PRESIDE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of eye & contact lens association is to advance quality medical eyecare for the public by providing comprehensive ophthalmologists and other eyecare, professionals with education and training in contact lenses and related eyecare science. Support for contact lens science.... Founded in 1963, and incorporated as a 501(c)(6) organization in 1964, the eye and contact lens association, inc. (the organization) has grown to become an important medical subspecialty association. The organization is dedicated to providing ophthalmologists, optometrists, and other eye care professionals with leading edge information in contact lens and related vision science. An emphasis on education.... With quality education as its top priority, the organization produces user-friendly learning programs that encompass contact lenses and other aspects of vision correction. These programs come to members via: a peer- reviewed scientific journal, an annual national meeting, courses and symposiums, vari
What it reported doing in 2025
Journal - issued quarterly
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -278.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $317K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.