Why donate during checkout

Dry Eye Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2018, runs eight different websites for patients and providers, hosts Zoom support groups, Facebook groups and forums, engages in research partnerships, and advocates for Dry Eye Disease patients in innumerable ways throughout the year.

Click here to read DEF's 2023 Annual Report, 

Dry Eye Shop is not affiliated with DEF, but the Shop's founder/owner is a co-founder of DEF and ardent advocate for the patient community. Check-out donations are one way of offering a convenient pay-it-forward option.

How it works

When you check out, you can choose a % of your order total to add as a donation, or type in an amount.

100% of your donation will go to the Dry Eye Foundation. Any transaction or administrative costs are covered by the Dry Eye Shop. Every Monday, Rebecca walks down the hall to Aidan's office with a check for the previous week's "pass-through donations" in the amount listed below. Please note that you can also donate directly to the Dry Eye Foundation at any time on their site. 

Donations tally 

DryEyeShop customers have donated more than $30,000 to the Dry Eye Foundation during checkout since we started check-out donations in mid 2020! Thank you for your support!

*On November 6-8, 2020 we stopped collecting for the Foundation for a few days and instead, during our Stock-Up Sale, collected donations specifically to cover direct costs of patients who can't afford their dry eye or scleral lens products. $187.87 was raised during that sale.