Honoring the Institute’s most generous benefactors whose gifts exceed $1 million, the Bascom Palmer Society was created in memory of the Institute’s namesake, Bascom Headon Palmer, M.D., an ophthalmologist who pioneered eye care in Miami.
- Alcon Laboratories
- Ibrahim N. Al-Rashid
- Mohammad N. Al-Rashid
- Dr. Nasser Ibrahim Al-Rashid
- Dr. Nourah Caskey Al-Rashid
- Ramzi Al-Rashid
- Salman Al-Rashid
- Carl B.* & Iris Apfel
- Ms. Adrienne Arsht/Hope for Vision
- Sadye Barrel*
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Alumni Association, Inc.
- Dr. Carol Bastek
- Richard E. & Mary Lee Bastin
- John E. Blair*
- Mrs. Gladys A. Bludworth
- Michele R. Bowman & Col. Joseph E. Underwood
- Braman Family Foundation
- Charles William Brand*
- Ms. Theresa Broeman*
- Mary C. Brosius & George C. Brosius*
- Mary J. & George T. Brosius*
- Robert M. & Virginia M. Buck*
- Mr.* & Mrs. Willard Butcher
- Helen & George Clarke*
- Mark J. Daily, M.D.
- Thorne B.* & Monnie Donnelley
- The Faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology
- of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Florida Crystals Corporation
- Werner F. Farnell*
- The Celia Lipton Farris & Victor W. Farris Foundation, Inc.
- Florida Lions Eye Bank
- The Foundation Fighting Blindness
- Mr.* & Mrs. Samuel J. Frankino
- The Samuel J. & Connie M. Frankino Charitable Foundation
- Stanley & Kathleen Glaser*
- Gordon R. Miller, M.D *
- Nancy I. & Robert Z. Greene*
- Allyn J. Heath*
- Helen Herold*
- W. Pruett & Audrey M. Hickman*
- Mrs. Lou Higgins*
- William* & Norma Horvitz
- W. Starr & Alvira Johnston*
- William M. Kennedy*
- James L. Knight*
- Mr. & Mrs. Theo Kolokotrones
- Clara Kresge*
- The Kresge Foundation
- Hugh & Sally Lalor*
- The James Annenberg La Vea Charitable Foundation
- Anne Bates Leach*
- Dr.* & Mrs. Ronald Lepke
- Henri & Flore Lesieur Foundation
- Donna Mae Litowitz*
- The Joe & Emily Lowe Foundation, Inc.
- Mr. & Mrs. Milton S. Maltz
- Maltz Family Foundation
- Ramonia Mayhall*
- William L. & Evelyn McKnight*
- McKnight Brain Research Foundation
- The Miami Lighthouse for the Blind
- The Mnaymneh Family
- Ambrose Monell Foundation
- Dorothy S. Munn*
- The Murray Foundation
- Mr. & Mrs. W. Stephen Murray
- Naples Children & Education Foundation
- National Philanthropic Trust
- Frederic S. & Christine B. Nusbaum
- Ophthalmology Research Foundation
- Mr. & Mrs. Raymond G. Perelman*
- Lois Pope & the LIFE Foundation
- William & Isabel Collier Read*
- Lillian Redlich*
- Judy W. Renick*
- Renick Trust
- Research to Prevent Blindness
- Edith & Earl Retter*
- Robert R. & Joyce L. Rice
- Mrs. Gladys Riggall
- Charlotte Breyer Rodgers*
- George G.* & Estelle Rosenfield
- Walter G. Ross Foundation
- The Salah Foundation
- Ernie D. Semersky Family & Dory Newell
- Richard D. Siegal*
- Anne & Matthew Smith Family Endowed Research Fund
- Strobis Glaucoma Foundation
- William J. Thode III*
- Elsie & Tolly Vinik*
- Caroline & Alitza Weiss Family Foundation
- Richard G. West*
- Annabelle P. Whistler*
- Wildflower Foundation
- Morty& Gloria Wolosoff Foundation, Inc.*
- Shlomo & Amy Yeminy*
- Miles Zisson*
In loving memory*
Donations listed as of June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2022