How much did MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY grant in FY2018?

MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY reported 27 grants totaling $19,510,604 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

Where is MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY based?

MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY is based in MA.

MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY

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· Public charity

MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH.

$20M

Granted FY2018

Grants

Communities

$15M

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2018 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k10 grants · $273k
$50k–250k10 grants · $971k
$250k+6 grants · $18M

$74,947

Median grant

States reached

$524M

Total assets

Largest grants

MASS EYE & EAR ASSOCIATES$15,083,409
BIONIC EYE TECHNOLOGIES INC$1,106,959
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$800,296
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD$426,941
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$309,529
Schepens Eye Research Institute$271,961
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL$219,902
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$106,924
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$98,339
PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$97,243
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$92,846
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$87,696
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$82,588
JOHNS HOPKINS U SCHOOL OF MED$74,947
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$58,232

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 91% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center ("VUMC") is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and…

Health

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At

As previously noted in this form 990, the mission of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. is to provide extraordinary healthcare services, where the patient comes first, supported by world-class…

Health

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

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Princeton university is a private not-for-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning and a world-renowned research institution.

Education

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The howard hughes medical institute is a philanthropy that serves society through the direct conduct of biomedical research and support for programs in science education.

Health

New York Medical College

Educate physicians, scientists, public health specialists & other healthcare professionals.

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Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Tufts Medical Center Physicians

The tufts medical center physicians organization, inc. coordinates the administrative and billing activities for the group practices in their mission of providing quality health care services to patients of tufts medical center, inc. and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Miami and the most unlike its peers is Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/16

Grantees still filing

14/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$15,708,685Other$2,707,931Education$700,774Science & Tech$133,374

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

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 042121659 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary?

Find your warmest path to Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary?

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MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary?

More from the funding graph