Nonprofit · EIN 31-1682275
SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC
Also known as S E E INTERNATIONAL INC
Tax-exempt · SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $14,887,864 | $15,590,318 | -$702,454 | $12,874,730 | $450,897 | $12,423,833 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $14,737,614 | $14,475,823 | $261,791 | $12,676,959 | $411,750 | $12,265,209 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $14,429,021
- Program service revenue
- $40,519
- Investment income
- $518,707
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $170,909
- Net income from fundraising events
- -$100,383
- Other revenue
- -$100,383
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $151,856
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $565,810
- Other salaries and wages
- $1,411,067
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $2,300,755
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $30,000
- Occupancy
- $185,927
- Travel
- $45,461
- Depreciation
- $78,779
- Program services (functional)
- $13,920,399
- Management and general (functional)
- $654,045
- Fundraising (functional)
- $1,015,874
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $12,676,959
- Total assets, end of year
- $12,874,730
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $450,897
- Net assets, end of year
- $12,423,833
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $88,780
- Publicly traded securities
- $10,388,036
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $11,153,943
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $1,269,890
- Gross receipts
- $16,185,435
- Employees
- 27
- Volunteers
- 1,450
- Year formed
- 1974
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald W Bell | CEO | 40 | $235,000 | $9,570 |
| Arianna M Castellanos | Vice President of Programs | 40 | $144,392 | $17,201 |
| Rachel B Tennant | VP/Chief Dev. Off. | 40 | $140,410 | $19,237 |
| Scott W Groff | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Howard Hudson CPA | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Jeffery Levenson MD | Chief Med Offic Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Wright Watling | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kenneth D Gack Esq | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| George Rudenauer | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Dante Pieramici MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Randal Goodman MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Bill OConnor | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Grace McNamara | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lauren Shatz MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Madhavi Reddy MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
2 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lt Col Travis Morrow Esq | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Tracy Parisher | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 15 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald W Bell | CEO | 40 | $240,808 | $8,784 |
| Arianna M Castellanos | Vice President of Programs | 40 | $139,691 | $11,901 |
| Rachel B Tennant | VP/Chief Dev. Off. | 40 | $137,549 | $11,618 |
| Scott W Groff | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Howard Hudson CPA | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Jeffery Levenson MD | Chief Med Offic Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Wright Watling | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kenneth D Gack Esq | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| George Rudenauer | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Dante Pieramici MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Randal Goodman MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Bill OConnor | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lauren Shatz MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Madhavi Reddy MD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lt Col Travis Morrow Esq | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 6500 HOLLISTER AVE STE 120, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117-5556
- In care of
- % KAREN GREATHOUSE
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Scott W Groff, 6500 Hollister 120, Santa Barbara, CA 93117
- Signed the 990
- HOWARD HUDSON CPA, Treasurer
- Phone
- (805) 963-3303
- Website
- www.seeintl.org
- Return prepared by
- Stoltey & Associates
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 31-1682275 or by the name SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
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.
Program accomplishments
- 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
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 31-1682275
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2000
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- International, foreign affairs and national security (Q300)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $12,874,730
- Income (IRS master file)
- $16,185,435
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $14,887,864 | $15,590,318 | $12,874,730 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $14,737,614 | $14,475,823 | $12,676,959 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $10,676,161 | $11,824,397 | $11,505,713 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 31-1682275).
Questions about SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC
- What is the EIN of SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC is 31-1682275.
- Is SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2000.
- Are donations to SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Scott W Groff.
- Who are the officers and directors of SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 17 people; 3 received compensation from the organization, the highest $235,000 (Donald W Bell, CEO).
- How much revenue does SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $14,887,864, expenses of $15,590,318 and total assets of $12,874,730 at year end.
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