2025-07-31T10:55:30-07:00 2024-12-31 770581023 Stoltey & Associates 4643 Kennington Dr Santa Maria CA 93455 990 2024-01-01 311682275 SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC SURG 8059633303 6500 Hollister 120 Santa Barbara CA 93117 HOWARD HUDSON CPA Treasurer 2025-07-31 true true Brad A Stoltey P00241354 8056895880 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Scott W Groff 6500 Hollister 120 Santa Barbara CA 93117 16185435 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. 14 14 27 1450 0 14400117 14429021 13995 40519 320671 518707 2831 -100383 14737614 14887864 151856 0 2146077 2300755 0 1015874 12329746 13137707 14475823 15590318 261791 -702454 12676959 12874730 411750 450897 12265209 12423833 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 13080963 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. 528640 40519 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. 308728 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. 2068 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. 2068 13920399 true true false false false false false false false true true false false false true true false false false false true true false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 9 0 true 27 true false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false X 14 14 false false false false false false false true true false false true true false false 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 235000 0 9570 Arianna M Castellanos Vice President of Programs 40.00 0.00 144392 0 17201 Rachel B Tennant VP/Chief Dev. Off. 40.00 0.00 140410 0 19237 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 Grace McNamara 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 Tracy Parisher Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 519802 46008 3 false true false 0 308134 14120887 11794447 14429021 Program Service Revenue 611600 40519 40519 40519 347798 347798 0 0 0 1338397 1167488 170909 170909 170909 29700 308134 130083 -100383 -100383 0 0 0 14887864 211428 247415 0 0 151856 151856 0 565810 190635 178139 197036 0 1411067 722523 197346 491198 44683 21691 7187 15805 121749 71626 16398 33725 157446 75929 27895 53622 0 0 30000 30000 0 0 70303 70303 41139 30892 10247 55866 6680 83 49103 65581 53858 7807 3916 95116 33758 18591 42767 0 185927 127716 36311 21900 45461 19652 13117 12692 0 7958 1075 5382 1501 0 0 78779 48024 30755 42544 26407 8813 7324 DONATED MEDICAL SUPPLIES 12013087 12013087 MEDICAL SUPPLIES 229489 229489 MISCELLANEOUS 99145 24695 5918 68532 Clinics and programs 77312 70806 6506 0 15590318 13920399 654045 1015874 110674 1239682 978849 96307 0 0 0 0 0 1277115 952239 45629 49040 1520443 1431663 161339 88780 9580471 10388036 0 0 0 276416 307112 12676959 12874730 129235 141425 282515 309472 411750 450897 X 11375362 11153943 889847 1269890 12265209 12423833 12676959 12874730 -702454 861078 X false true X true false X 8760710 7314606 10468315 14400117 14120887 55064635 5960 9194 17480 13995 40519 87148 0 0 0 8766670 7323800 10485795 14414112 14161406 55151783 4324668 1141498 7095908 11281996 11331149 35175219 0 4324668 1141498 7095908 11281996 11331149 35175219 19976564 239286 369384 296243 294412 347798 1547123 0 239286 369384 296243 294412 347798 1547123 0 1692 2831 4523 9005956 7693184 10783730 14711355 14509204 56703429 0.35230 0.33380 0.02730 0.02500 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 9518677 1307131 631919 10193889 8657014 1263161 401498 9518677 11478316 -1907854 1085950 8484512 12748804 1629512 2900000 11478316 11428808 396850 1376315 453169 12748804 0.97240 0.00500 0.02260 false true true 1464274 1375219 89055 56169 56444 -275 88780 Lease Obligations 309472 309472 X 129299899 861078 113621260 114482338 14817561 70303 70303 14887864 129141275 113621260 113621260 15520015 70303 70303 15590318 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 10649290 EAST ASIA & THE PACIFIC 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 1513145 SOUTH ASIA 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 86676967 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 10971813 NORTH AMERICA 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 2353150 South America 0 0 EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS EYE SURGERIES & EYE EXAMS 1608750 113773115 113773115 South Asia Medical Supplies 18426 Wire South Asia Medical Supplies 36374 Wire South Asia Medical Supplies 5028 South Asia Medical Supplies 92028 Wire 4 false false false false false false X X X X X X X false AL AK AZ CA CO CT FL GA IL IN ME MD MA MI MN MO NJ NY NC OH OK OR PA RI UT VA WA WI 50th Anniversary 337834 308134 29700 92201 9844 1500 26538 337834 308134 29700 92201 9844 1500 26538 130083 -100383 X X X false false false false false false false false false Arianna M Castellanos Vice President of Programs 139651 4741 4197 13004 161593 Donald W Bell CEO 235000 7050 2520 244570 Rachel B Tennant VP/Chief Dev. Off. 135805 4605 4077 15160 159647 X 4 85365 FMV X 3 11661991 EST FMV Other 47091 false false false 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 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.