· Public charity
Research to Prevent Blindness Inc
To provide the organizational and financial resources necessary to support a comprehensive program of eye research.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL-MEEI | $300,000 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & DENTISTRY | $115,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $115,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY | $50,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL-MEEI | $38,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue +33%- TBTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2022 · $350k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
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.
To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
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.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Research to Prevent Blindness Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Research to Prevent Blindness Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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