· Public charity
Research to Prevent Blindness Inc
To provide the organizational and financial resources necessary to support a comprehensive program of eye research.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $670k
- $250k+8 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL-MEEI | $350,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL-MEEI | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY | $125,000 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY | $115,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $115,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & DENTISTRY | $115,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY | $50,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL-MEEI | $38,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +51%
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2023 · $960k · revenue +41%- AOASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $840k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- RTRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -54%
- TBTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2022 · $350k
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
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…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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…
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…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is The Glaucoma Foundation Inc. 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 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds OPHTHALMOLOGY MEDICAL SERVICE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Research to Prevent Blindness · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Research to Prevent Blindness Inc 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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