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