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Eye Bank Association of America

The EBAA champions the restoration of sight through core services to its members which advance donation, transplantation, and research in their communities and throughout the world.

$134k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Eye Bank Association of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$133k50%
FY20249$135k33%
FY20237$78k43%
FY20229$128k56%
FY202112$148k67%
FY202010$75kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$313kEducation$207kScience & Tech$170kAnimals$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Eye Bank Association of America by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Miami$65,00030%
VisionGift$64,59430%
Case Western Reserve University$62,50040%
The Cornea Society$58,00053%
Eversight$57,50020%
University of Pittsburgh$50,00010%
Johns Hopkins University$34,99030%
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc$22,4802n/a
The Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Inc$20,00021%
Minnesota Lions Vision Foundation Inc$15,00020%
State University of Iowa$15,0002n/a
Donate Life America$10,00020%
University of California- Davis$7,5001n/a
The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa$7,5001n/a
University of South Florida$7,5001n/a
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente$7,5001n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$7,5001n/a
Wake Forest University$7,50010%
University of Minnesota Foundation$7,50010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$7,5001n/a
Regents Univ of California$7,5001n/a
University of California Davis$7,5001n/a
Stein Eye Institute$5,0001n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eye Bank Association of America supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVisionGift: $64,594 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $62,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cornea Society: $58,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetEversight: $57,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $34,990 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMinnesota Lions Vision Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDonate Life America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWake Forest University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Eye Bank Association of America?

Find your warmest path to Eye Bank Association of America 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.

About Eye Bank Association of America

How much does Eye Bank Association of America give?
Eye Bank Association of America reported 10 grants totaling $134,442 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Eye Bank Association of America fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (29%), Science & Tech (24%).
Who are Eye Bank Association of America's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Miami ($65k), VisionGift ($65k), Case Western Reserve University ($63k).
Does Eye Bank Association of America fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eye Bank Association of America?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Eye Bank Association of America based?
Eye Bank Association of America is based in VA.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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