Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION
THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,000 to it, the largest being RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ($162,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $346k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $4.8M (+44%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $30k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Society of Heed Fellows 100-2872). These are real filings, and they are not money THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION’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
THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 84% · 2023 67% — 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
THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION?
- THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,000 to it, the largest being RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ($162,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $232,000 in grants to THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION?
- RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ENDOWMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $162,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HEED OPHTHALMIC FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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