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Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc

The foundation promotes the treatment and cure of degenerative diseases that affect the retina and cause blindness. The foundation solicits donations and contributions through various fundraising events in order to provide grants to further the research into therapies for these diseases.

$80k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
1
’18
1
’19
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$80,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$725k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$50k100%
FY20181$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Science & Tech$250kHealth$211kEducation$80k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wills Eye Ophthalmology Clinic Inc$50,00010%
Fight for Sight Inc$11,25013%

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About Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc

How much does Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc give?
Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Science & Tech (46%), Health (39%), Education (15%).
Who are Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Wills Eye Ophthalmology Clinic Inc ($50k), Fight for Sight Inc ($11k).
Does Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc based?
Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation Inc is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $205k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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