Funding search · EIN 237135845 · Columbia, MD

The Foundation Fighting Blindness

Name: The Foundation Fighting Blindness grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

96
grants reported: $61.6M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $200,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

research

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Foundation Fighting Blindness Rd Fund3 grants · $32.0M
University of Pennsylvania3 grants · $3.1M
Duke University Medical Center3 grants · $2.2M
Oregon Health and Science University3 grants · $2.1M
University of Washington3 grants · $2.1M
University of California Irvine3 grants · $1.5M
Odylia Therapeutics2 grants · $1.5M
Columbia University3 grants · $1.5M
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary3 grants · $1.4M
University of California San Diego3 grants · $1.0M

Giving over time

$24.4M

2022

$17.5M

2023

$19.7M

2024

Grant history

All 96 reported grants, largest first.

$14.9M
Foundation Fighting Blindness Rd Fund · Columbia, MD · 2022
Research
$8.8M
Foundation Fighting Blindness Rd Fund · Columbia, MD · 2024
Research
$8.3M
Foundation Fighting Blindness Rd Fund · Columbia, MD · 2023
Research
$1.4M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$1.1M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research
$1.0M
Oregon Health and Science University · Portland, OR · 2022
Research
$1.0M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Research
$914,667
University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024
Research
$900,000
Duke University Medical Center · Durham, NC · 2024
Research
$896,691
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$868,961
Odylia Therapeutics · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Research
$775,000
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$775,000
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Research
$700,000
Duke University Medical Center · Durham, NC · 2023
Research
$631,039
Odylia Therapeutics · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Research
$622,107
Oregon Health and Science University · Portland, OR · 2023
Research
$611,811
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Research
$600,000
Duke University Medical Center · Durham, NC · 2022
Research
$575,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research
$539,141
Fordham Univerity · Bronx, NY · 2024
Research
$500,000
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Research
$500,000
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Research
$499,940
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2023
Research
$499,940
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2022
Research
$483,751
Biojiva · Los Atlos, CA · 2023
Research
$480,030
Fordham University · Bronx, NY · 2022
Research
$474,235
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Research
$464,216
Biojiva · Los Altos, CA · 2022
Research
$460,869
Oregon Health and Science University · Portland, OR · 2024
Research
$402,223
Harvard Medical School · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$402,223
Harvard Medical School · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$400,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$396,667
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$375,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Research
$375,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research
$300,000
Mitochem Therapeutics · Charleston, SC · 2024
Research
$300,000
University of California Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024
Research
$300,000
Mitochem Therapeutics · Charleston, SC · 2023
Research
$300,000
University of California Irvine · Irvince, CA · 2023
Research
$300,000
Mitochem Therapeutics · Charleston, SC · 2022
Research
$300,000
University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2022
Research
$296,150
New York STEM Cell Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$267,406
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2024
Research
$266,686
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2023
Research
$265,908
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2022
Research
$250,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$200,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$200,000
University of California Davis Health · Davis, CA · 2024
Research
$200,000
University of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2024
Research
$200,000
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$199,999
Tufts University · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$199,975
Tufts University · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$199,946
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2022
Research
$181,355
Jackson Laboratory · Bar Harbor, ME · 2022
Research
$178,641
University Hospitals · Detroit, MI · 2024
Research
$175,000
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Research
$175,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research
$169,257
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2024
Research
$169,257
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Research
$166,454
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Research
$160,400
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Research
$160,400
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Research
$145,665
Oakland University · Rochester, MI · 2023
Research
$140,433
Medical University South Carolina · Charleston, SC · 2022
Research
$140,255
Oakland University · Rochester, MI · 2024
Research
$140,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research
$119,955
University of Missouri · Columbia, MO · 2024
Research
$118,500
University Hospitals · Detroit, MI · 2022
Research
$100,000
Medical College of Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Research
$100,000
Retina Foundation of the Southwest · Dallas, TX · 2024
Research
$100,000
Univ Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Research
$100,000
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2024
Research
$100,000
Medical College of Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Research
$100,000
Retina Foundation of the Southwest · Dallas, TX · 2023
Research
$100,000
Univ Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2023
Research
$100,000
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2023
Research
$100,000
University of California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research
$100,000
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2022
Research
$100,000
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2022
Research
$98,190
University of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2022
Research
$75,000
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
Research
$75,000
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Research
$75,000
University of Illinois-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$75,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Research
$75,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Research
$75,000
University of Illinois-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$75,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Research
$50,000
University of North Carolina School of Medicine · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Research
$50,000
Foundation for the Nih · North Bethesda, MD · 2023
Research
$50,000
University of North Carolina School of Medicine · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Research
$31,260
University Hospitals · Detroit, MI · 2023
Research
$25,000
Foundation for the Nih · North Bethesda, MD · 2024
Research
$25,000
Foundation for the Nih · North Bethesda, MD · 2022
Research
$24,998
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Research
$24,998
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Research
$24,565
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2024
Research

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.