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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 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,707 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.

$14M
Revenue FY2024
34
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$87M
Net assets
20/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($9.9M) Net assets 100 ($77M)2021 Revenue 101 ($10M) Expenses 96 ($9.4M) Net assets 110 ($85M)2022 Revenue 132 ($13M) Expenses 102 ($10M) Net assets 87 ($67M)2023 Revenue 114 ($12M) Expenses 99 ($9.8M) Net assets 102 ($78M)2024 Revenue 133 ($14M) Expenses 106 ($10M) Net assets 112 ($87M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (133)Expenses (106)Net assets (112)

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$321k
20
$858k
21
$3.4M
22
$1.9M
23
$3.1M
24
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $5k → $232k.

7 of 34 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 34 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

72%
largest funder
82%
top three
~2
effective funders

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; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 7 states in all.

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
AL
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

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 34 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.

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.

Federal$86k
grants $0contracts $86k
17
18
19
Top agencies
  • 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

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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 12%Fundraising 8%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NY
PA
NJ
CT
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York: 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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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 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 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,707 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 34 organizations giving $1,415,707 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 34funders 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