Florida · Nonprofit
Macular Degeneration Association
Macular Degeneration Association (Florida) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,155 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($369,516). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Macular Degeneration Association does
Mission
The mission of the Macular Degeneration Association (MDA)is to find a cure for macular degeneration. We disseminate research findings that have the potential to produce new treatments and present educational programs to help those affected by this disease.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2025, the Macular Degeneration Association began funding Good Days to provide prescription assistance to those who cannot afford their prescribed medications for macular degeneration. This program will be expanded in future years, so more individuals can benefit.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Macular Degeneration Association produces newsletters quarterly. The information provided is for those who have age-related macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease, glaucoma, geographic atrophy, dry eye disease, and cataracts. The newsletter provides educational information, new research, new drug therapies, clinical trials, and treatments. The newsletters go out to 49,200 doctors, patients, families, and caregivers. Brochures were designed and provided to doctors to help their patients navigate macular degeneration and find resources that can help. The Macular Degeneration Association has created a state-of-the-art website to provide an extensive number of resources and information to help those affected by macular degeneration and additional diseases that can affect macular degeneration. This website includes educational videos that are produced for patients, family members and caregivers. The website is ADA-compliant.
$916,976 spent53% of program spendingThe Macular Degeneration Association (MDA) created informative and necessary educational programs for those affected by macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, geographic atrophy, and dry eye disease. These programs not only provide information for the person affected by these eye diseases but also bring precautionary measures to their family members and helpful information for their caregivers. All programs feature experts in the field of retina or optometry providing information about risk factors, genetic predisposition, proper diagnosis, new treatment options, research information, clinical trials, and new drug advances. Participants are given a chance to interact with the doctor and ask questions. They are also able to share their challenges and successes with the other attendees.
$730,512 spent42% of program spendingIn 2025, MDA funded research to Orange County Research for their project on Combination Therapy in Wet AMD and Geographic Atrophy, led by Rajiv Rathod, M.D. A donation was made to Good Days to help patients cover medication costs essential for preserving their vision. A grant was given to Women Make Movies for their film Seeing Stars the first fiction film about macular degeneration which is positioned to bring worldwide attention to the epidemic of vision loss, expanding support for services and retinal research that will lead to sight-saving treatments for millions of people.
$85,000 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,732,488.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $7.8M to $10M (+29%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Macular Degeneration Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Lawrence Hoffheimer
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $22k → $323k.
11 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Macular Degeneration Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
Macular Degeneration Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
69% 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 Macular Degeneration Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 68% · 2019 41% · 2020 54% · 2021 32% · 2022 32% · 2023 28% — 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
43% of Macular Degeneration Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
68% of Macular Degeneration Association's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $433k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $911k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
Macular Degeneration Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Macular Degeneration Association
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% 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 51 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Parkinson Research Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Macular Degeneration Association?
- Macular Degeneration Association (Florida) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,155 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($369,516). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Macular Degeneration Association have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $1,344,155 in grants to Macular Degeneration Association, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Macular Degeneration Association?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $369,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Macular Degeneration Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 121 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