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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.

$20M
Granted FY2018
27
Grants FY2018
15
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2018.

Health$33MScience & Tech$3.8MEducation$242k
02FY2018 · 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
15
States reached
$524M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY: $36k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $98k → 11%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $363k → 16%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $24k → 22%BIONIC EYE TECHNOLOGIES INC: $1.1M → 9%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY: $28k → 14%NYU LAGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $36k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $103k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $59k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $39k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $104k → 10%PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $97k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $93k → 13%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $46k → 11%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $220k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $59k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $53k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $211k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS U SCHOOL OF MED: $75k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $35k → 15%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD: $526k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $36k → 11%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $310k → 16%WILLS EYE HOSPITAL: $48k → 22%BIONIC EYE TECHNOLOGIES INC: $769k → 9%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $47k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $27k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $28k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $88k → 10%PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $80k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 11%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $163k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $29k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $107k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $14k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $28k → 15%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD: $427k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $138k → 16%WILLS EYE HOSPITAL: $15k → 22%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $25k → 15%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $83k → 16%MASS EYE & EAR ASSOCIATES: $15.1M → 16%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC: $14.3M → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $804k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $800k → 16%Schepens Eye Research Institute: $272k → 16%SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $171k → 16%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 19 repeat orgs$409k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
3

Total granted

$36M
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+80%

Still filing today

42%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthEducationScience & TechOther

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

  • Rhode Island Hospital
    2× · 2017–2018 · $383k · revenue +68%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $318k · revenue +50%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $221k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $59k · revenue +80%
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $47k
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New Yorkgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +62%

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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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.…

Health
2
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
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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
4
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
5
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
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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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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
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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
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

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
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hospital. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr14%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%93%10–20yr19%2%20–35yr14%1%35–55yr14%5%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,327

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

19 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. 19 of the 31 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)
17/19
Grantees still filing
19/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC — $29,334,698 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC+6 more — $1,156,876 · HealthBIONIC EYE TECHNOLOGIES INC — $1,876,119 · OtherBIONIC EYE TECH…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $1,604,196 · OtherMASS GENERAL BR…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $672,930 · OtherMASS GENERAL BR…University of Wisconsin Madison — $191,871 · Other+9 more — $651,571 · Other+9 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $953,247 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $318,146 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $110,288 · EducationVanderbilt University — $92,846 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $76,368 · EducationEmory University — $58,598 · Education+3 more — $74,781 · EducationPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $177,558 · Science & TechCHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY INC — $36,131 · Science & Tech
Health$30,491,574Other$4,996,687Education$1,684,274Science & Tech$213,689

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES INC — $29,334,698 over 2y, 12% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $953,247 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $23,548 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $22,937 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $11,790 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not 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 →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University

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 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Portland Va Research Foundation — 34% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1rely 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.

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

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