· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Miami | $50,000 |
| University of Iowa | $15,000 |
| Case Western | $12,500 |
| Cornea Society | $10,000 |
| Wilmer Eye Institute | $7,500 |
| Stein Eye Institute | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Kellogg Eye Center | $7,500 |
| VisionGift | $7,500 |
| University of South Florida | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Miami3× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +48%
- VVisionGift3× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +19%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +34%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +11%- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISone grant, 2024 · $8k
- MEMass Eye & Ear Schepens Eye Researchone grant, 2022 · $8k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
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…
Arvo advances research worldwide into understanding the visual system and preventing, treating and curing its disorders.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds VisionGift ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CORNEA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONATE LIFE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eye Bank Association of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eye Bank Association of America. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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