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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc (Massachusetts) is funded by 53 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $14,263,031 in grants to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,013,751). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,816 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,816 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2018
$87k from 3 funders in 2025, up from $785k and 9 in 2017.
7 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. Association, not causation.
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 38% · 2019 37% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 41% · 2023 61% · 2024 41% · 2025 75% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
24% of Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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.
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 53 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
71% of spending goes to programs.
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 15 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 53funders 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. view filing