California · Nonprofit
DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE
DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,281,649 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,546,918). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $233M
What Doheny Eye Institute does
Mission
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. Doheny - 1947).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the Doheny Eye Institute (dei), to further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight, is guided by the following objectives: 1. To increase knowledge of the human eye, its conditions and diseases, through research; 2. To transmit this knowledge through education, training, and community service; and 3. To facilitate the application of its research to improve patient care and foster further research. Research activities for the period and selected for long-term focus include: retinal and macular degeneration research through the study of retinal pigment epithelium and the use of advanced retinal imaging in patients with age-related macular degeneration (amd) and image analysis using artificial intellegence; optic nerve research and investigations of diseases involving retinal ganglion cells; investigations of retinal vascular stiffness and altered immune cell regulation as potential causative factors in diabetic retinopathy; research focused on defining the molecular details linking mitochondrial dysfunction and altered signaling between retinal neurons. On december 18, 2013, the Doheny Eye Institute executed an agreement with the university of…
$12,975,041 spent$6,121,156 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,975,041.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $203M to $229M (+13%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 15% · 2022 3% · 2023 12% · 2024 15% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Marissa Goldberg
CEO
Board chair
Charles T Foscue
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $589k → $619k.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $200k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Jg Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. 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
DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 42% · 2019 42% · 2020 45% · 2021 72% · 2022 57% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
31% of DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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.
Government funding DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$22.9M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$71k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE?
- DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,281,649 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,546,918). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $10,281,649 in grants to DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,546,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing