Maryland · Public charity
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc
To drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures, for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, usher syndrome, and the spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.
- $23M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $20M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,771,404
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $111M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $19M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $17M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $24M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $22M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $18M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $18M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $11M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $19M | 19% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Health$129MScience & Tech$28MEducation$7.3M
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
MO
KY
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund | $91,537,877 | 9 | 100% |
| Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System | $8,285,539 | 9 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $7,464,342 | 9 | 0% |
| University Hospitals Health System Inc | $5,859,435 | 9 | n/a |
| Oregon Health & Science University Foundation | $4,428,173 | 9 | 1% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $3,831,680 | 9 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $3,525,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Duke University | $3,364,998 | 9 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $2,692,155 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $1,970,636 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund | $91,537,877 | 9 | 100% |
| Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System | $8,285,539 | 9 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $7,464,342 | 9 | 0% |
| University Hospitals Health System Inc | $5,859,435 | 9 | n/a |
| Oregon Health & Science University Foundation | $4,428,173 | 9 | 1% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $3,831,680 | 9 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $3,525,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Duke University | $3,364,998 | 9 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $2,692,155 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $1,970,636 | 8 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,747,024 | 8 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | $1,514,667 | 3 | n/a |
| Odylia Therapeutics Inc | $1,500,000 | 2 | 41% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,405,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $1,399,820 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Florida Research Foundation Inc | $1,074,565 | 7 | 1% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $1,035,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $1,019,171 | 2 | 0% |
| Biojiva | $947,967 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $939,919 | 7 | n/a |
| Mitochem Therapeutics Inc | $900,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $900,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $817,913 | 5 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California | $751,538 | 5 | n/a |
| Retina Foundation of the Southwest | $697,100 | 6 | 4% |
| The Jackson Laboratory | $678,213 | 4 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $631,477 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $599,838 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $565,831 | 3 | 0% |
| Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | $482,822 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $399,974 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Houston | $377,262 | 3 | n/a |
| Emory University | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $338,514 | 2 | n/a |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $336,371 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Augusta University | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Delaware | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Iowa Research Foundation | $300,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Molecular Insight Researchfoundation | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $296,150 | 1 | 1% |
| Marquette University | $288,588 | 3 | 0% |
| Oakland University | $285,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Louisiana State University School of Med in New Orleans Faculty Group Practice | $282,790 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $265,908 | 1 | n/a |
| The Florida State University Foundation Inc | $218,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of California- Davis | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Rochester | $199,554 | 2 | 0% |
| Unt Health Science Center | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | $145,062 | 3 | n/a |
| Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $119,955 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Massachusetts | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Miami | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $90,020 | 1 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Health Sciences Facility | $63,750 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $43,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Buck Institute for Research on Aging | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of Tennessee | $31,875 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.
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.
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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About The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc
- How much does The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc give?
- The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $19,662,310, out of $22,880,201 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (78%), Science & Tech (17%), Education (4%).
- Who are The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund ($92M), Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System ($8.3M), Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary ($7.5M).
- Does The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc based?
- The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc is based in MD.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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