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THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC

THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,589,738 to it, the largest being THE MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST UA #745176 ($800,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$174k
Revenue FY2024
34
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
23/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%

Against its field

THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−85% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve18.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−24% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($480k) Net assets 100 ($8.1M)2018 Revenue 104 ($1.3M) Expenses 119 ($574k) Net assets 111 ($9.0M)2019 Revenue 75 ($931k) Expenses 147 ($706k) Net assets 118 ($9.6M)2020 Revenue 135 ($1.7M) Expenses 80 ($386k) Net assets 128 ($10M)2022 Revenue -157 ($-1951439) Expenses 51 ($243k) Net assets 126 ($10M)2024 Revenue 14 ($174k) Expenses 67 ($321k) Net assets 143 ($12M)
201720182019202020222024
Revenue (14)Expenses (67)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$760k
17
$717k
18
$226k
19
$1.3M
20
$2.2M
22
$147k
24
19
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $93k → $193k.

4 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)6% 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 MACULA FOUNDATION INC’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 MACULA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 16% · 2019 31% · 2020 18% · 2021 75% · 2022 93% · 2023 72%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

43% of THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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 MACULA FOUNDATION INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

NY
PA
NJ
CT
FL

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

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21
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23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

Organizations like THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC

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

30% of spending goes to programs.

Program 30%Management 70%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC: 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 MACULA FOUNDATION INC?
THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,589,738 to it, the largest being THE MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST UA #745176 ($800,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,589,738 in grants to THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC?
THE MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST UA #745176 is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC 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 2017–2024), 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