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Glaucoma Research Foundation

Cure Glaucoma and restore vision through innovative research.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$17M
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $3,090,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,167,340 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,340 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $590k
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.5M
$150,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY Dr Hu$375,000
GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION$325,000
UC SAN DIEGO$250,000
Mayo Clinic$250,000
Brigham and Womens Hospital$250,000
Massachusetts Eye & Ear$250,000
UC DAVIS$250,000
THE REGENTS OF UC Berkeley$250,000
UC SAN FRANCISCO$250,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$150,000
West Virginia University$55,000
Loyola University of Chicago$55,000
Doheny Eye Institute$55,000
University of Texas$55,000
UC Irvine$55,000
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%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Brigham and Womens Hospital: $250k → 16%UC Irvine: $55k → 10%THE REGENTS OF UC Berkeley: $250k → 10%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $456k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $300k → 11%UC DAVIS Srinivasan: $250k → 16%New York University: $55k → 17%University of Texas: $55k → 14%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $150k → 15%University of Missouri-Kansas: $55k → 15%University of Utah: $55k → 8%Indiana University: $55k → 16%West Virginia University: $55k → 19%Brigham and Womens Hospital: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG: $55k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $55k → 8%University of California: $200k → 10%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $400k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%UC DAVIS Srinivasan: $100k → 16%University of North Texas: $100k → 11%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $55k → 15%Loyola University of Chicago: $55k → 14%Brigham and Womens Hospital: $186k → 16%BYERS EYE INSTITUTE STANFORD: $250k → 8%UC Berkeley: $200k → 10%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $375k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $55k → 17%STANFORD UNIVERSITY Dubra: $250k → 8%University of California: $55k → 10%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $350k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%Massachusetts Eye & Ear: $250k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY Huberman: $250k → 8%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $340k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%Massachusetts Eye & Ear: $200k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY Goldberg: $100k → 8%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $325k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $200k → 11%Massachusetts Eye & Ear: $150k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY Dubra: $100k → 8%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $325k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $150k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY Huberman: $100k → 8%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $275k → 10%GLAUCOMA REASERCH & EDUCATION: $125k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
MO
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 24 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
22

Total granted

$13M
$864k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+30%

Still filing today

46%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $390k · revenue +28%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    3× · 2021–2025 · $255k · revenue +48%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    3× · 2018–2023 · $140k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York University
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue 0%
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue -1%
  • RV
    RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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

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.

1
Drexel University

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…

Education
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
4
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc

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…

Health
5
William Marsh Rice University

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…

Education
6
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
7
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
University of Rochester

The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.

Education
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
Marshall B Ketchum University

To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.

Education
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baylor College of Medicine; the most unlike its peers is Universite De Montreal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $1,950,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,790,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $1,300,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $795,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $635,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMAYO CLINIC: $600,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC+21 more: $1,406,904 · Other+21 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,055,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR…GLAUCOMA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION GROUP: $2,971,250 · EducationGLAUCOMA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION GROUPUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $390,000 · Education+16 more: $1,370,000 · Education+16 moreMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $600,000 · HealthSchepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $105,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthLEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER: $40,000 · HealthCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL: $40,000 · Health+4 more: $70,994 · Health
Other$8,477,404Education$7,786,250Health$955,994

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,055,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION GROUP: $2,971,250 over 9y, 98% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $390,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $255,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $155,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $145,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $31,494 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFight for Sight Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetUPMC: $7,500 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION GROUP ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗

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.

Vanderbilt University…The Trustees of Colum…Johns Hopkins Univers…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterTN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Glaucoma Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glaucoma Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Glaucoma Research Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Glaucoma Research Foundation 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.

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 55 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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