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Knights Templar Eye Foundation

To improve vision through research, education, and supporting access to care.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$30MEducation$4.1MScience & Tech$1.6MInternational$685kRecreation & Sports$145kCommunity Improvement$105k
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
$80,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$201M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,000,000
FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA$500,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$330,000
CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS ( CEF OF AAPOS )$250,000
FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY$250,000
CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS ( CEF OF AAPOS )$250,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$243,500
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$160,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$110,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$100,000
CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS ( CEF OF AAPOS )$100,000
MEEI RESEARCH$100,000
ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$100,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$90,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS ( CEF OF AAPOS ): $250k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $330k → 10%CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $80k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $300k → 14%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY THE CITY OF NY: $90k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $2.0M → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $90k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $90k → 21%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $160k → 17%CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS ( CEF OF AAPOS ): $100k → 4%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORP: $90k → 19%ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH: $101k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $90k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $244k → 14%DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE: $2.0M → 16%ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH: $100k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $242k → 14%ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH: $100k → 8%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $500k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $228k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $170k → 15%ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH: $100k → 8%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $500k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $210k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $100k → 15%ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH: $100k → 8%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $500k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $193k → 14%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY: $400k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY: $400k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY: $400k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY: $400k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY: $400k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY: $250k → 10%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $2.0M → 14%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY PEDIATRIC EYE REGISTRY: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $250k → 10%CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION THE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS: $250k → 10%CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION THE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY EYECARE AMERICA: $250k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHALMOLOGY ONE NETWORK: $200k → 10%ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SO CAL: $95k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 65 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

65 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
13

Total granted

$33M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+50%

Still filing today

51%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k 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

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EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +47%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +67%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue -7%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +64%
  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2018 · $55k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
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
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
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
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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
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Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
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Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
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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
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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
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Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is Strabismus Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/89
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,476

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
43/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Children's Hospital Corporation — $2,666,872 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationChildren's Eye Foundation The Foundation Of AAPOS — $2,359,800 · HealthChildren's Eye Foundation The Foundation O…Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $2,299,998 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE — $2,000,000 · HealthDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTEChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,981,250 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY — $934,567 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARYTHE ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH INC — $772,509 · HealthTHE ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH INC+10 more — $851,562 · Health+10 moreBaylor College of Medicine — $2,739,705 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,234,594 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,002,343 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TH…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $449,840 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $354,921 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION — $339,134 · EducationAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $310,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $309,502 · Education+16 more — $1,735,331 · Education+16 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $1,009,876 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $770,867 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHState University of Iowa — $720,000 · OtherState University of IowaREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $489,137 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORN…NIHNIA — $370,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $335,908 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $322,638 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine — $294,278 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $265,000 · Other+34 more — $3,284,178 · Other+34 moreTHE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $6,100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION OF …Northwestern University — $145,000 · Recreation & SportsINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF OCULAR ONCOLOGY CO KRYSTAL CROWE — $80,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Health$13,866,558Education$8,875,370Other$7,861,882Arts & Culture$6,100,000Recreation & Sports$145,000Community Improvement$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $6,100,000 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $2,739,705 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $2,666,872 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Eye Foundation The Foundation Of AAPOS — $2,359,800 over 5y, 30% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $2,299,998 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE — $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,981,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,234,594 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,002,343 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY — $934,567 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH INC — $772,509 over 9y, 10% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $449,840 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $354,921 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION — $339,134 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $310,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $309,502 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EYE RESEARCH — $240,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $233,701 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $207,422 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $204,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation — $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $169,905 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $145,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc — $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $95,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUniversity of Dayton — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF OCULAR ONCOLOGY CO KRYSTAL CROWE — $80,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $64,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $62,891 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $59,351 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus Council — $44,274 over 1y, 75% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRABISMUS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Children's Eye Foundation The Foundation Of AAPOS ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
  • Who funds THE ARVO FOUNDATION FOR EYE RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EYE RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Brightfocus FoundationJohns Hopkins Univers…Cystic Fibrosis Found…The Trustees of Colum…American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Vanderbilt University…Alzheimer's Disease &…Muscular Dystrophy As…The Children's Hospit…Mayo ClinicAmerican Lung Associa…
Brightfocus FoundationMD24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brightfocus Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Mayo Clinic · American Lung Association

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Knights Templar Eye Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Knights Templar Eye Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Knights Templar Eye 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines