2024-10-24T12:53:46-07:00 2023-12-31 770581023 Stoltey & Associates 4643 Kennington Dr Santa Maria CA 93455 990 2023-01-01 311682275 SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC SURG 8059633303 6500 Hollister 120 Santa Barbara CA 93117 HOWARD HUDSON CPA Treasurer 2024-10-24 true true Brad A Stoltey P00241354 8056895880 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Scott W Groff 6500 Hollister 120 Santa Barbara CA 93117 16485805 false X www.seeintl.org X 1974 CA Surgical Eye Expeditions INTERNATIONAL, INC. is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization that provides medical, surgical, and educational services by volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the primary goal of restoring sight to blind individuals worldwide. 12 12 29 1331 0 10468315 14400117 17480 13995 188674 320671 1692 2831 10676161 14737614 0 0 2240099 2146077 0 1138256 9584298 12329746 11824397 14475823 -1148236 261791 11505713 12676959 508463 411750 10997250 12265209 X Surgical Eye Expeditions INTERNATIONAL, INC. is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization that provides medical, surgical, and educational services by volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the primary goal of restoring sight to blind individuals worldwide. false false 11726018 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 over half a million people around the world. In 2023, we continued to see an increase in requests from our volunteer network of doctors, traveling again to continue in the mission of restoring sight. Although there is some residual aftermath of the unforeseen corona virus pandemic impacting the level of support we can offer our programs today, the readiness and commitment to restore sight continued to rise in 2023. Our SEE volunteer teams, and international provider partners performed more than 46,000 major eye surgeries and 64,000 eye exams, in 40 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 1015-minute surgery can change many lives and SEE is committed to continue to reach those who need it most. 577041 SANTA BARBARA VISION CARE PROGRAMSEE serves its local community through its Santa Barbara Vision Care Program. In 2023 close to 6,000 locals received free eye care from the program. Since the inception of the program, we have served more than 85,000 low-income, uninsured, or under insured Santa Barbara County and Ventura County residents. In 2023, the Santa Barbara Vision Care Program reinforces the newly reinstated partnership with two large school districts, halted during the pandemic, to serve the state mandated grades with eye screenings. This partnership continued to prove the great need of the students of Santa Barbara County. Our efforts to grow the local program continued with an additional partnership in 2023 to serve more Ventura County residents. The program offers safety-net vision care services throughout Santa Barbara County and neighboring 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. 252297 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 cataracts 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 2023, we focused efforts of supporting the training of international residents. We offer two levels of training:- 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 236 trainees in 2023, 108 of which were international. Throughout 2023, 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. SEE also continued to work with the second LINKS program between Emory University and Addis Ababa University through 2023. SEEs strategic vision of focusing most of our educational efforts internationally, was practiced in great depth and with more intention in 2023. We found success in this change to reach the longer term goal of supporting the build of sustainable eye care models, globally. 23714 12579070 true true false false false false false false false true true false false false true true false false false false true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 10 0 true 29 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 12 12 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X ACCOUNTANT 8059633303 6500 Hollister 120 Santa Barbara CA 93117 X Donald W Bell CEO 40.00 0.00 240808 0 8784 Arianna M Castellanos Vice President of Programs 40.00 0.00 139691 0 11901 Rachel B Tennant VP/Chief Dev. Off. 40.00 0.00 137549 0 11618 Scott W Groff Chairman 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Howard Hudson CPA Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Jeffery Levenson MD Chief Med Offic 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Wright Watling Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Kenneth D Gack Esq Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 George Rudenauer Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dante Pieramici MD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Randal Goodman MD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Bill OConnor Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lauren Shatz MD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Madhavi Reddy MD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lt Col Travis Morrow Esq Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 518048 32303 3 false true false 0 14400117 11408733 14400117 Program Service Revenue 611600 13995 13995 13995 294412 294412 0 0 0 1774450 1748191 26259 26259 26259 0 0 0 Other 2831 2831 2831 14737614 43085 294412 0 0 0 0 401184 185892 137735 77557 0 1431087 656780 207588 566719 45600 19080 12868 13652 122198 66523 12527 43148 146008 69536 25324 51148 0 7750 7750 27000 27000 0 0 63677 63677 36769 36769 188141 2595 204 185342 80372 60122 16846 3404 101009 40601 21333 39075 0 358854 220469 107724 30661 58123 17639 39101 1383 0 18860 9492 8488 880 0 0 94375 57531 36844 60996 35167 19692 6137 DONATED MEDICAL SUPPLIES 10680207 10674107 6100 MEDICAL SUPPLIES 404664 404551 113 MISCELLANEOUS 108461 23243 9661 75557 Clinics and programs 40488 35742 4022 724 0 14475823 12579070 758497 1138256 627757 0 416886 1239682 698879 96307 0 0 0 0 785754 1277115 74612 45629 1613604 1452265 185969 161339 8686345 9580471 0 0 0 29511 276416 11505713 12676959 508463 129235 282515 508463 411750 X 9486134 11375362 1511116 889847 10997250 12265209 11505713 12676959 261791 1006168 X false true X true false X 20701006 8760710 7314606 10468315 14400117 61644754 37630 5960 9194 17480 13995 84259 0 0 0 20738636 8766670 7323800 10485795 14414112 61729013 16746933 4324668 1141498 7095908 11281996 40591003 0 16746933 4324668 1141498 7095908 11281996 40591003 21138010 385215 239286 369384 296243 294412 1584540 0 385215 239286 369384 296243 294412 1584540 0 1692 2831 4523 21123851 9005956 7693184 10783730 14711355 63318076 0.33380 0.97430 0.02500 0.02570 X Support Schedule: Additional Supplemental Information SEE International receives a large portion of medical supplies from a single donor. The surgery supplies used by SEE International are specialized and is available from a limited number of providers. Due to the size of the non-cash contribution of medical supplies from the donor, the amount of the non-cash contribution has been reported on Schedule A Part III line 7a which impacts the public support percentage reported on Schedule A Part III line 15 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 8657014 1263161 9920175 11478316 -1907854 1085950 8484512 12748804 1629512 2900000 11478316 11428808 396850 1376315 453169 12748804 9201546 777500 1860991 411229 11428808 0.97800 0.00700 0.01500 false true true 1557435 1395821 161614 56169 56444 -275 161339 Lease Obligations 282515 282515 X 117313778 1006168 101633673 102639841 14673937 63677 63677 14737614 116045819 101633673 101633673 14412146 63677 63677 14475823 Part V, Line 4: Intended uses of the endowment fund. The specific purpose for the ENDOWMENT shall be to obtain and invest and reinvest funds for the specific benefit of Surgical Eye Expeditions International, Inc. Part X : FIN48 Footnote SEE is organized as a California nonprofit corporation and has been recognized by the IRS as exempt from federal income taxes under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(a) as an organization described in IRC Section 501(c)(3) and qualifies for the charitable contribution deduction under IRC Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) and has been determined not to be a private foundation under IRC Section 509(a)(2). SEE is annually required to file a Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990) with the IRS. In addition, SEE is subject to tax on income that is derived from business activities that are unrelated to its exempt purpose. Management has determined SEE is not subject to unrelated business income tax and has not filed an Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return (Form 990-T) with the IRS.SEE tax filings are subject to examination by the IRS, generally for three years after they are filed. SEE is not aware of any activities that would jeopardize its tax-exempt status. true CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 7334887 EAST ASIA & THE PACIFIC 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 1252235 SOUTH ASIA 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 79264943 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 9779186 NORTH AMERICA 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 1735500 South America 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 2266922 101633673 101633673 false false false false false false X X X false false false false false false false false false Arianna M Castellanos Vice President of Programs 133049 6642 3991 7910 151592 Donald W Bell CEO 240808 7224 1560 249592 X 1 6000 Est FMV X 3 11402733 Est FMV false false false Form 990, Part III, Line 4d OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: United States Domestic ProgramSSEEs U.S. 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. In 2023, SEE supported over 2,000 people through our partnership with Federally Qualified Health Center, Serve the People, who are driven to serve the people of Orange County in all medical health needs. SEE also continues to support eye care needs, similar to our local program through our partnership in Brownsville, Texas with Federally Qualified Health Center, Brownsville Health Center. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A DETAILED REVIEW OF THE FORM 990 WILL FIRST BE DONE BY EXECUTIVE STAFF.THE FORM 990 WILL NEXT BE REVIEWED BY TREASURER ON THE BOARD OFDIRECTORS. THE TREASURER IS A CPA WHO HAS EXPERIENCE IN FORM 990 PREPARATION AND HASNON-PROFIT AUDIT EXPERIENCE. THE CURRENT TREASURER HAS BEEN ON THE BOARD SEVERALYEARS. FORM 990 WILL BE REVIEWED BY THE AUDIT COMMITTEE WHICH INCLUDES OTHERBOARD MEMBERS AND EXECUTIVE STAFF. FINALLY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL RECEIVE ACOPY OF THE FORM 990 BEFORE IT IS FILED FOR THEIR REVIEW. THE FORM 990 WILL BE SENTVIA E-MAIL AS AN ATTACHMENT IN .PDF FORMAT TO BOARD MEMBERS. BOARD MEMBERS WILL BEASKED TO REPLY IF THEY HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c On an annual basis, the Conflict of Interest Policy is discussed at Board meeting. Also, a new Board member is provided a copy of the Conflict of Interest Policy as part of their new board member packet. All Board Members are required to sign the policy stating that they have read and understand the conflict of interest policy with SEE International.As part of the Policy, specific Procedures are stated including Duty to Disclose: In connection with any actual or possible conflicts of interest, an interested person must disclose the existence and nature of his or her financial interest to the director and members of committees with board delegated powers considering the proposed transaction or arrangement or to an appropriate supervisor. Board Members are required to report any conflicts of interest immediately. When the Policy is discussed at Board meeting, various examples are provided so that Board members will know how to identify conflicts. SEE monitors and enforces the policy by making sure that each Board member has signed a copy and submitted it stating they have read and understand the policy. Additionally, within the Procedures section of the Policy, there is written guidance to determining whether a conflict of interest exists, and the consequences should there be violations of the conflicts of interest policy. On a routine basis - usually annually - staff reviews various Board Members and transactions or arrangements that may be possible situations where a conflict might occur. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b Currently the PRESIDENT/CEO is the top management official. The compensation of the PRESIDENT/CEO was reviewed and approved by a compensation committee including the CHAIR of the Board of Directors. Data that provided comparable compensation for similarly qualfied persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations was utilized. Contemporaneous notes were kept in this process. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Form 990, governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are made available upon request. These documents are stored as read-only documents in organizations' computer system, to be accessed by various personnel upon need to provide to public. Documents are updated regularly. There is a written statement in Annual Report and on website that documents will be provided upon request.