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Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund

The FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUND's mission is to accelerate the translation of retinal laboratory-based research into clinical trials to expedite the commercialization of patient therapies.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$60M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$1.0M100%
FY20184$5.7M0%
FY20178$2.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$9.1MEducation$415k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nacuity Pharmacuticals Inc$5,500,0002n/a
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc$1,649,43223%
Opus Genetics Inc$1,000,0001n/a
Doheny Eye Institute$808,06022%
Johns Hopkins University$415,13820%
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation$54,00010%
Retina Foundation of the Southwest$25,40411%
Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc$23,31810%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return$21,93010%

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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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About Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund

How much does Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund give?
Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund reported 1 grants totaling $1,000,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (96%), Education (4%).
Who are Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nacuity Pharmacuticals Inc ($5.5M), Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc ($1.6M), Opus Genetics Inc ($1.0M).
Does Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund based?
Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund is based in MD.

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 9 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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