Virginia · Public charity
Virginia Eye Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to the improvement of eye care and the prevention of blindness. The foundation conducts and promotes basic laboratory research and training to individuals engaged in a career in the visual sciences. Clinical concerns include providng medical and surgical eye care to needy or uninsured individuals.
- $132k
- Granted FY2018
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2018
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2018
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2018
Read this first · the figures below need context
74% of Virginia Eye Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Hampton Roads Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Virginia Eye Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $80k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2018
- $80k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2018
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2018
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2018
- States reached, FY2018
- 2
- Total assets, FY2018
- $132k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2018, 60% of the organizations Virginia Eye Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | 5 | $80k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc | $230,000 | 8 | 1% |
| American College of Eye Technicians Inc | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lions Medical Eye Bank & Research Center of Eastern Virginia Inc | $38,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Evms Academic Physicians and Surgeons Health Services Foundation | $37,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation Fighting Blindess Inc | $36,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Eye Bank Association of America | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Healthy Chesapeake Inc | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Olivet Medical Ministry Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Care Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Virginia Eye Foundation
- How much does Virginia Eye Foundation give?
- Virginia Eye Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $132,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
- What does Virginia Eye Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (24%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Virginia Eye Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc ($230k), American College of Eye Technicians Inc ($55k), Lions Medical Eye Bank & Research Center of Eastern Virginia Inc ($38k).
- Does Virginia Eye Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2018, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Eye Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Virginia Eye Foundation based?
- Virginia Eye Foundation is based in VA.
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