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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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPUS GENETICS INC$1,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $445k → 14%NACUITY PHARMACUTICALS INC: $4.0M → 11%RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25k → 14%JAEB CENTER HEALTH RESEARCH: $1.1M → 13%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $54k → 12%OPUS GENETICS INC: $1.0M → 11%HOOVER LOW VISION: $23k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $249k → 19%DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $363k → 14%NACUITY PHARMACEUTICALS INC: $1.5M → 11%JAEB CENTER HEALTH RESEARCH: $547k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $167k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 4 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$8.4M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+83%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’25
HealthEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NP
    NACUITY PHARMACUTICALS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5.5M
  • JC
    JAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.6M · revenue +81%
  • DE
    DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $808k · revenue -84%

Funded once

  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue +91%
  • RF
    RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWESTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +83%
  • GB
    GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +54%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NACUITY PHARMACUTICALS INC: $5,500,000 · OtherNACUITY PHARMACUTICALS INCJAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,649,432 · OtherJAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCOPUS GENETICS INC: $1,000,000 · OtherOPUS GENETICS INCDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $808,060 · OtherDOHENY EYE INSTITUTEJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $415,138 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $54,000 · EducationRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25,404 · HealthGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $23,318 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $21,930 · Health
Other$8,957,492Education$469,138Health$70,652

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,649,432 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $808,060 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $415,138 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25,404 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $23,318 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $21,930 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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