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Usher 1F Collaborative Inc

To fund medical research to find an effective treatment to save or restore the vision of those affected with Usher Syndrome Type 1F.

$697k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$320k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% 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$1.5MEducation$1.5MHealth$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $367k
  • $250k+1 grant · $320k
$86,640
Median grant
4
States reached
$691k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Harvard University$320,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness$200,000
Individual grant recipient$86,640
University of Oregon Foundation$80,000
LSU Foundation$5,350
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Unravel Biosciences: $87k → 8%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $100k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%The Salk Institute: $150k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%University of Oregon Foundation: $120k → 15%LSU Foundation: $5k → 19%Foundation Fighting Blindness: $300k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION: $165k → 19%Harvard University: $320k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%Salk Institute: $95k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%University of Oregon Foundation: $85k → 15%Foundation Fighting Blindness: $200k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION: $150k → 19%Harvard University: $291k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%University of Oregon Foundation: $80k → 15%Foundation Fighting Blindness: $200k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION: $150k → 19%Harvard University: $170k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%Foundation Fighting Blindness: $200k → 6%University of Maryland Foundation: $100k → 19%Harvard University: $163k → 8%University of Oregon Foundation: $33k → 15%Foundation Fighting Blindness: $200k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%Harvard University: $150k → 8%University of Oregon Foundation: $30k → 15%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $8k → 6%University of Maryland Baltimore Fo: $40k → 19%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $5k → 6%University of Maryland Baltimore Fo: $25k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 6 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$2.9M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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

  • THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +49%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $680k · revenue +60%
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $623k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    one grant, 2022 · $95k · revenue +12%
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.

1
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
7
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
University of Maryland Obstetrical Andgynecological Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,294,155 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $680,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $622,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $5,350 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1,112,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLIN…UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $86,640 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $95,100 · Science & Tech
Education$2,752,005Health$1,112,500Other$336,640Philanthropy$100,000Science & Tech$95,100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,294,155 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1,112,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $680,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $622,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $95,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $5,350 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 Usher 1F Collaborative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Usher 1F Collaborative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
  • University of Oregon Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Usher 1F Collaborative 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 10 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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