Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,400 to it, the largest being THE KAREN AND HERBERT LOTMAN FOUNDATION ($295,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $358k
- Net assets
- $0
What Macula Vision Research Foundation does
Mission
Macular degeneration vision research and public education toward curing vision related diseases
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Fund groundbreaking innovative research conducted by the world's top scientists who are working feverishly to find treatments and a cure for retinal diseases, including macular degeneration and congenital childhood blindness
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.7M to $353k (−80%).
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 12% · 2018 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. 0 of the last 3 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 → 2018: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $349k → $10k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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
MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Organizations like MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation · exempt
- Eighteen Fea LLP · partnership
- Lotman Management LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: 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 MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,400 to it, the largest being THE KAREN AND HERBERT LOTMAN FOUNDATION ($295,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $358,400 in grants to MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- THE KAREN AND HERBERT LOTMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 13 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