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American Glaucoma Society Inc

Ags is the preeminent organization dedicated to improving the lives of all people with glaucoma and those at risk by leading the advancement of education, research, health care access, and advocacy.

$276k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$2.2MEducation$328kYouth Development$80kScience & Tech$30kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $270,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $275,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$50,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$30,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
WILLS EYE HOSPITAL$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $110k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $40k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANNIA: $65k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $40k → 10%THE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY: $250k → 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY: $50k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $40k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 21%BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 10%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $40k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $10k → 19%NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $10k → 14%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - WILMER EYE INSTITUE: $10k → 11%WILMER EYE INSTITUTE AT JOHN HOPKINS: $10k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS EAR AND EYE INFIRMARY: $60k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $10k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANNIA: $40k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $85k → 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $40k → 15%WILMER EYE INSTITUTE AT JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS EAR AND EYE INFIRMARY: $50k → 16%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $80k → 10%USC EYE INSTITUTE KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS EAR AND EYE INFIRMARY: $50k → 16%WILLS EYE INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $80k → 10%USC EYE INSTITUTE KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $40k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS EAR AND EYE INFIRMARY: $40k → 16%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $35k → 10%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $30k → 10%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $30k → 10%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $30k → 10%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$690k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
27

Total granted

$1.5M
$680k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+43%

Still filing today

60%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +13%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    6× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +96%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $138k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +37%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New Yorkgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
6
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
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Marshall B Ketchum University

To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.

Education
8
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
12
University of Rochester

The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington University and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,522

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
23/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Miami — $145,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiDUKE UNIVERSITY — $138,118 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $125,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANF…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $110,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $60,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN TH…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $50,000 · EducationAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 · Education+6 more — $80,000 · Education+6 moreAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC — $399,800 · OtherAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $130,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …State University of Iowa — $90,000 · OtherState University of IowaCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $60,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $50,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $40,000 · Other+14 more — $140,000 · Other+14 moreMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY — $320,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & …CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL — $90,000 · HealthCITY OF PHILADELPHIA…MAYO CLINIC — $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+3 more — $30,000 · Health+3 moreTHE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDA…
Education$993,118Other$949,800Health$490,000Arts & Culture$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC — $399,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY — $320,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $138,118 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL — $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Johns Hopkins Univers…The Children's Hospit…Vanderbilt University…American Heart Associ…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Heart Association Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Glaucoma Society Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to American Glaucoma Society Inc?

Find your warmest path to American Glaucoma Society Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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