Maryland · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH
ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $820,667 to it, the largest being RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ($430,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $263k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $821k
- Net assets
- $316k
What Alliance for Eye and Vision Research does
Mission
To achieve the best vision for all americans through education about the value of federally funded vision research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Research saving sight, restoring vision initiative: aevr educates policy makers and the public about the value of eye and vision research. Beginning in 2021, most of aevr's ongoing activities to educate policy makers and the public about the value of eye and vision research (such as congressional briefings and receptions) were labeled as research saving sight, restoring vision initiative (rssrv) 2021-2030 activities, rssvr is a sustained educational effort, begun in 2021, to recognize the power of federally funded vision research to benefit patients by increasing productivity, maintaining independence and improving quality of life.
$157,359 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $157,359.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $334k to $441k (+32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
94% of ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $74k → $106k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 53% · 2019 61% · 2020 50% · 2021 53% · 2022 53% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Alliance for Eye And · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH?
- ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $820,667 to it, the largest being RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ($430,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $820,667 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH?
- RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Alliance for Eye and Vision Research →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing