Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,082,404 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ($7,464,342). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY has grown faster than half of the 1,648 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,648 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2018
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared funders
- Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundationportfolio match
- Blood Cancer United Incshared funders
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.
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 6% · 2018 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $4.5M → $6.3M.
9 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $58M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY raised.
From the IRS filings of MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 40% · 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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
38% of MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 102 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 107 organizations that share your funders
- Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blood Cancer United Incshared fundersDC · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 95 organizations that share your funders
- American Lung Associationshared fundersIL · backs 112 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 114 organizations that share your funders
- Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Incshared fundersIL · backs 145 organizations that share your funders
- The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 144 organizations that share your funders
- Breakthrough T1dshared fundersNY · backs 108 organizations that share your funders
- Brown Universityshared fundersRI · backs 161 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 151 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $343.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$318.8M
- Department of Defense$22.9M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$649k
- Agency for International Development$516k
- National Science Foundation$400k
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 MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Fdn of the Mass Eye & Ear Infirmaryinc · exempt
- Massachusetts Eye & Ear Associates Inc · exempt
- Circle Company Inc · exempt
- Embankment Services Inc · exempt
- Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary Pension Plan · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY?
- MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,082,404 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ($7,464,342). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $52,082,404 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY?
- THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,464,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 102funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing