California · Nonprofit
RETINA GLOBAL
RETINA GLOBAL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,020 to it, the largest being THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $370k
- Net assets
- $405k
What Retina Global does
Mission
To provide sustainable solutions to the increasing number of people around the world afflicted with retinal diseases.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Screen and treat people for retinal diseases in underserved areas around the world, through outreach and volunteer programs. Considering the COVID situation in some of the areas we work in, we continued to avoid specialists from the US and other countries to travel to our locations. Instead, we continued to organize and arrange for eye care specialists from local areas to volunteer their time and provide expertise for free to travel to underserved areas close to where they live. They evaluate patients on sites working with our partner eye clinics. This work is important to create sustainable solutions in these underserved areas. We reimburse their basic travel costs.
$13,428 spent12% of program spendingScreen and treat patients with retinal and other ocular diseases in Orange County, CA. Volunteer ophthalmologists from Southern California volunteer their time and expertise, along with other volunteers such as ophthalmology technicians and scribes, as well as fellows and ophthalmology residents, medical and premedical students and trainee nurses. This program also provides educational opportunities to the students, while also helping conduct research activities such as educating patients with diabetes to help them take better control of their diseases, which will help reduce visual impairment.
$94,590 spentof which $100,000 as grants88% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $108,018.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $113k to $284k (+151%).
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.
93% of RETINA GLOBAL’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. 2 of the last 6 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
Rajat Agrawal
CEO
Board chair
Pravin Dugel
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $103k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 RETINA GLOBAL’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
RETINA GLOBAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 87% · 2023 97% — 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
RETINA GLOBAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RETINA GLOBAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 RETINA GLOBAL
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 RETINA GLOBAL: 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 RETINA GLOBAL?
- RETINA GLOBAL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,020 to it, the largest being THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RETINA GLOBAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $370,020 in grants to RETINA GLOBAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RETINA GLOBAL?
- THE ALCON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RETINA GLOBAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 7 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