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Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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. IT HAS THE MOST COMPETITIVE PROGRAM IN THE COUNTRY FOR EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT RESIDENCY TRAINING…

$20M
Granted FY2018
27
Grants FY2018
24
Organizations funded FY2018
21%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$74,947
Largest grant, FY2018
$15,083,409
Organizations funded a year
22 to 24
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
15
Total assets, FY2018
$524M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 21% of the organizations Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201824$19M21%
FY201722$18Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Health$33MScience & Tech$3.8MEducation$242k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
MD
TN
NC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc$29,334,698212%
Bionic Eye Technologies Inc$1,876,1192n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,604,1962n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$672,9302n/a
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc$442,84721%
Rhode Island Hospital$383,28220%
Case Western Reserve University$318,14620%
Children's Hospital Corporation$220,60420%
University of Wisconsin Madison$191,8712n/a
Portland Va Research Foundation$177,5582n/a
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All grantees of Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc$29,334,698212%
Bionic Eye Technologies Inc$1,876,1192n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,604,1962n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$672,9302n/a
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc$442,84721%
Rhode Island Hospital$383,28220%
Case Western Reserve University$318,14620%
Children's Hospital Corporation$220,60420%
University of Wisconsin Madison$191,8712n/a
Portland Va Research Foundation$177,5582n/a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$134,56220%
University of Miami$110,28820%
Vanderbilt University$92,84610%
Johns Hopkins U School of Med$89,3702n/a
State University of Iowa$86,2862n/a
Duke University$76,36820%
Regents of the University of Michigan$66,9432n/a
University of Maine System Inc$63,0832n/a
City of Philadelphia Trustee Administering Wills Eye Hospital$62,13120%
Emory University$58,59810%
Pennsylvania State University$58,2321n/a
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc$53,9342n/a
Ohio State University$52,5721n/a
Weill Cornell Medical College$46,5891n/a
Nyu Langone Hospitals$36,22210%
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc$36,13110%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$28,29610%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc: $29,334,698 over 2y, 12% of budgetSchepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $442,847 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $383,282 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $318,146 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $220,604 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorcester Polytechnic Institute: $134,562 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $110,288 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $92,846 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $76,368 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity of Philadelphia Trustee Administering Wills Eye Hospital: $62,131 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $58,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNyu Langone Hospitals: $36,222 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc: $36,131 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $28,296 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Johns Hopkins Univers…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

How much does Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary give?
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary reported 27 grants totaling $19,510,604 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Health (89%), Science & Tech (10%), Education (1%).
Who are Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc ($29M), Bionic Eye Technologies Inc ($1.9M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($1.6M).
Does Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University.
Where is Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary based?
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary is based in MA.

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 31 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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