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The Glaucoma Foundation Inc

The glaucoma foundation, inc.

$983k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$178k
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 FY2017–2025.

Health$4.3M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $700,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $982,807 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $282,107 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$177,500
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$150,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$75,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$75,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$75,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$73,200
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $75k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG: $60k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $90k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $175k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $75k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNI CALI: $190k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDFOR THE STATE UNIVOF NY: $60k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $300k → 17%Medical Uni of South Carolina: $60k → 12%University of Miami: $60k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $135k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $150k → 14%Washington University: $60k → 21%BoR Uni of Wisconsin System: $120k → 10%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $60k → 13%Indiana University Trustees: $60k → 18%University of Cincinnati: $60k → 16%CARES: $60k → 14%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $213k → 19%Schepens Eye Research Instit: $60k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $75k → 8%The Regents of the Uni Cali: $100k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $75k → 17%University of Miami: $60k → 15%University of Iowa: $60k → 15%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $60k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $60k → 21%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $178k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $60k → 16%The Regents of the Uni Cali: $60k → 10%Columbia University: $60k → 17%University of Iowa: $60k → 15%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60k → 19%THE REGENTS OF THE UNI CALI: $50k → 10%Columbia University: $60k → 17%University of Iowa: $60k → 15%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250k → 17%RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $75k → 17%Research to Prevent Blindness: $75k → 17%ICAHN SCOOL OF MEDICINE: $130k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $73k → 17%Icahn School of Medicine: $70k → 17%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
MD
TN
NC
SC
GA
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $282k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Germany$113k · 40% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

Sweden$75k · 27% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

Australia$75k · 26% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$20k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

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. 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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 10 repeat orgs$735k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$2.4M
$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+21%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
EducationHealthOther

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 UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +4%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    4× · 2021–2025 · $373k · revenue +22%
  • RT
    RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM
    one grant, 2021 · $120k
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue -32%

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.

1
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
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
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
4
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
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
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
7
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
8
University of Rochester

The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.

Education
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
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
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Research to Prevent Blindness 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%52%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,539

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

20 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. 20 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $745,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $450,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $372,950 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAITHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYUniversity of Miami — $120,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $90,000 · Education+5 more — $265,000 · Education+5 moreREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $399,750 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAState University of Iowa — $314,920 · OtherState University of IowaREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $210,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIG…THE DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $180,000 · OtherTHE DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDIC…BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM — $119,842 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY …REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $75,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFO…Indiana University School of Medicine — $60,000 · OtherRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC — $150,000 · HealthRESEARCH TO PR…Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $120,000 · HealthVanderbilt Uni…Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc — $60,000 · HealthSchepens Eye R…MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY — $60,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS …Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science — $60,000 · HealthChicago Associ…GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $60,000 · HealthGEORGIA TECH R…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVER…
Education$2,412,950Other$1,359,512Health$570,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $745,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $372,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Association for Research and Education in Science — $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Glaucoma Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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