New York · Nonprofit
The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York
The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,426,727 to it, the largest being UW MCCURDY ARTICLE 2ND CHAR TR ($1,021,448). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $87M
What The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York does
Mission
The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration (The Eye-Bank), the worlds first eye bank, is devoted to restoring sight through eye donations and cornea transplants, as well as providing ocular tissue for research into treatment and cures for other eye diseases. Public awareness about the need for eye donations is a key component of our efforts to restore sight to more than a thousand of individuals each year.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Eye-Banks state-of-the-art ocular laboratory operates 24/7 to recover, evaluate and distribute safe, quality donor eye tissue for cornea transplants and other ophthalmic surgeries. Staff receives continual education and training in the latest technological advances, including preparing partial thickness grafts for endothelial keratoplasty (EK) procedures.
$4,708,108 spentof which $14,842 as grants$5,666,618 earned by the program61% of program spendingThe Eye-Banks Ocular Tissue Research Program supplies donor eye tissue to medical scientists researching cures and treatment of eye diseases such as cataracts, glaucoma and diseases of the retina. The Eye-Bank also provides adult human Retina Pigment Epithelial (ah-RPE) cells to a growing number of researchers across the country who are conducting studies on the potential for transplanting RPE cells in the future. The Eye-Bank distributed 121% more donor tissue to researchers in 2023 (190 tissues) over 2022 (86 tissues). This significant increase is due in part to The Eye-Banks addition of a Research and Relationship Development Manager position as well as our hosting a reception at the 2023 meeting of ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) which enabled us to meet in-person with researchers currently using our donor tissue and cultivate new opportunities for our Research Program to collaborate.
$870,819 spent11% of program spendingThe Eye-Banks Public Education Program offers resources and materials about eye donation to the general public including brochures and a newsletter, eye-to-eye, which is circulated to more than 20,000 transplant recipients, friends and supporters of The Eye-Bank and an effective website that also offers valuable information in Spanish as well as English about eye donation and cornea transplantation; how to write to your donor family; and how to enroll in the NYS Donate Life Registry.
$724,950 spent9% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: The Eye-Banks Ocular Tissue Research Program supplies donor eye tissue to medical scientists researching cures and treatment of eye diseases such as cataracts, glaucoma and diseases of the retina. The Eye-Bank also provides adult human Retina Pigment Epithelial (ah-RPE) cells to a growing number of researchers across the country who are conducting studies on the potential for transplanting RPE cells in the future. The Eye-Bank distributed 121% more donor tissue to researchers in 2023 (190 tissues) over 2022 (86 tissues). This significant increase is due in part to The Eye-Banks addition of a Research and Relationship Development Manager position as well as our hosting a reception at the 2023 meeting of ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) which enabled us to meet in-person with researchers currently using our donor tissue and cultivate new opportunities for our Research Program to collaborate. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: The Young Ambassador Program invites cornea transplant recipients ages four to 17 to express themselves creatively through art and poetry and selected efforts are featured in The Eye-Banks annual Thanksgiving Card.…
$1,444,965 spentof which $6,000 as grants19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,748,842.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $86M to $70M (−18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Patricia Dahl
CEO/Exec. Dir.
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $5k → $232k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 66% · 2018 68% · 2019 39% · 2020 77% · 2021 90% · 2022 83% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$86k
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 The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
24%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York?
- The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,426,727 to it, the largest being UW MCCURDY ARTICLE 2ND CHAR TR ($1,021,448). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,426,727 in grants to The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York?
- UW MCCURDY ARTICLE 2ND CHAR TR is the largest funder on record, with $1,021,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 35 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