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The Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Inc

Our mission is to serve as a global catalyst for innovation, workforce development and collaboration in the field of vision research.

$796k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$980kHealth$847kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $170,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $796,243 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $626,243 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Johns Hopkins University$70,000
Stanford University$50,000
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $40k → 10%UCLA STEIN EYE INSTITUTE: $40k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $5k → 17%WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $5k → 15%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $5k → 8%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $45k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $15k → 12%Northwestern University: $100k → 14%NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE NIH: $45k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $140k → 16%Stanford University: $50k → 7%REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $40k → 10%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $55k → 16%NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%Oregon Health & Science University: $50k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%Johns Hopkins University: $70k → 19%Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary: $50k → 16%Stanford University: $50k → 7%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 16%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $45k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $40k → 16%WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $100k → 19%SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $12k → 16%PHARMALOGIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $10k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $10k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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Grants abroad, by region: $296k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $138k to organizations and $158k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$182k · 62% · 1 grant · 51 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH AWARD · TRAVEL GRANTS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$68k · 23% · 1 grant · 51 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH AWARD · TRAVEL GRANTS

South Asia$22k · 7% · 6 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL GRANTS

South America$15k · 5% · 7 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL GRANTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$9k · 3% · 8 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL GRANTS

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$915k · 6 repeat orgs$767k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
21

Total granted

$915k
$717k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+45%

Still filing today

33%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2025 · $280k · revenue +51%
  • ME
    MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $250k
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    2× · 2020–2021 · $105k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +91%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

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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
2
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
3
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
4
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
5
Case Western Reserve University

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…

Education
6
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…

Health
7
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
8
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
9
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
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Oregon Health & Science University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $280,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIO…Baylor College of Medicine: $105,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONEmory University: $45,000 · EducationEmory UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $40,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 · Education+3 more: $15,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNORTHEASTERN STATE: $100,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN STATEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $80,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA…Stanford University: $50,000 · OtherStanford UniversityUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMNIHNIA: $45,000 · OtherNIHNIAREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON+5 more: $40,000 · Other+5 moreMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $250,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EY…Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $12,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $10,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$815,000Other$645,000Health$272,000Recreation & Sports$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $280,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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