SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q300

Classification

1000

Street

6500 HOLLISTER AVE STE 120

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• INTERNATIONAL VISION PROGRAMSEE International transforms lives by restoring sight to those in need. SEE envisions a world where everyone has access to vision care, regardless of who they are, where they live, or their ability to pay.Over the past 50 years, SEE has restored sight to more than half a million people around the world. In 2024, we normalized back from the COVID barriers of International travels by supporting 127 short term international programs (STIP), led by our volunteer network of doctors continuing in the mission of restoring sight. Our SEE volunteer teams, and international provider partners, performed more than 59,000 major eye surgeries and over 78,000 eye exams, in 34 countries.Care is provided at no cost to the patient. With immense gratitude for our valued donors, crucial volunteer medical teams, and global partners, SEE can continue to be an active organization in restoring sight globally and transforming lives, one surgery at a time. When preventable blindness is left untreated, independence is lost not only by the afflicted individual, but also by his or her family and caretakers. A 10 15-minute surgery can change many lives, and SEE is committed to continue to reach those who need it most.

  Expenses $13,080,963

• SANTA BARBARA VISION CARE PROGRAMSEE serves its local community through its SEE Vision Care Program (SVC). In 2024, following a rebrand and a move to a new site location in Goleta, California over 7,000 residents of the central coast received free eye care from the program. Since the inception of the program, we have served more than 90,000 low-income, uninsured, or underinsured Santa Barbara County and Ventura County residents.In 2024, the SVC program reinforced the newly reinstated partnership with largest school district, to serve the state mandated grades with eye screenings. This partnership continued to prove the great need of the students in our service area. Our efforts to grow the local program continued with the addition of a Mobile Unit, bringing care to patients in need in Ventura County while moving our Goleta clinic to a space that allows for growth.The SVC program offers safety-net vision care services throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. In addition to providing eye exams, no-cost glasses, and eye drops, we offer specialty care services, that can include surgery through a network of local volunteer eye surgeons, for residents that have no other means of receiving the needed eye care.

  Expenses $528,640 · Revenue $40,519

• EDUCATION DIVISIONSEE offers hands on training on Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS); a low-cost, low tech form of cataract extraction that saves time, money, and energy, most commonly used in third world and remote areas, globally. Additionally, due to the nature of cataracts in areas where we work (hard, dense, and mature), surgeons are unable to use the same measures to remove the cataract that they would in the US. In 2006, we offered educational opportunities to ophthalmologists and residents in their final years of school through our training and in 2024, wecontinued focused efforts of supporting the training of international residents and community health care workers. We primarly focus training of the following, yet have expanded our training reach to support non-surgeons with a whole person mindset in eye care:- Level 1 MSICS courses: lecture and wet lab for those new to the technique. - Level 2 MSICS courses: supervised hands-on surgery in the field.We supported the training of 240 board-certified and resident trainees in 2024, and trained an additional 283 technicians, nurses and assistants. Throughout 2024, SEE continued to support the Vision 2020 LINKS-USA program which matches international needs with institutional expertise to create stronger vision care systems. The RIIO and Wills Eye Hospital LINKs project displayed great success leading to a second 3rd year cycle of SEE support in 2022, and finalizing in early 2025. SEE also continued to work with the second LINKS program between Emory University and Addis Ababa University through 2024.SEE's strategic vision of focusing most of our efforts internationally, was practiced in great depth and with more intention in 2023 and only carried forward successfully in 2024, more than doubling our training efforts. We found success in this change to reach the longer-term goal of supporting the build of sustainable eye care models, globally.

  Expenses $308,728

• United States Domestic ProgramSEE's Domestic Programs provide essential and transformative eye care to low-income, uninsured patients right here in the United States. The program offers safety-net vision care services throughout the country for individuals who would not otherwise be able to receive the care they need. SEE has been able to assist thousands of patients of all ages to receive free comprehensive eye exams, glasses, medications, and eye surgeries since launching support of domestic programs. In2024, SEE supported over 500 people through our partnership with Federally Qualified Health Centers, with eye care supplies. SEE also continues to support eyecare needs, like our local program through our partnership in Brownville, Texas with Federally Qualified Health Center, Brownsville Health Center where 12 surgeries to non-insured or under-insured residents was performed.

  Expenses $2,068

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $14,887,864

  Expenses

  $15,590,318

  Contributions

  $14,429,021

  Grants paid

  $151,856

• 2023

  Revenue

  $14,737,614

  Expenses

  $14,475,823

  Contributions

  $14,400,117

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $10,676,161

  Expenses

  $11,824,397

  Contributions

  $10,468,315

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,599,014

  Expenses

  $11,322,442

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,555,876

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,020,664

  Expenses

  $11,346,300

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,973,446

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $21,201,898

  Expenses

  $21,424,129

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,852,641

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $21,201,898

  Expenses

  $21,424,129

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,852,641

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,570,237

  Expenses

  $21,931,569

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,104,694

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $31,365,561

  Expenses

  $23,030,148

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,690,553

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $67,996,944

  Expenses

  $60,492,060

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,019,940

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $46,301,419

  Expenses

  $44,908,186

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,262,684

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $29,114,383

  Expenses

  $29,330,199

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,168,794

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $27,772,488

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,263,727

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $149,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY

  $143,000

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $130,055

  2023 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• WOMENS FUND OF SANTA BARBARA

  $110,000

  2025 · EXPANSION OF SEE VISION CARE PROGRAM

• HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC

  $95,740

  2023 · SUB-AWARD

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $67,042

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $58,750

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $52,810

  2022 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC

  $51,500

  2025 · MULTIPLE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $50,575

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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