Public Charity

THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC

THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC is a Public Charity headquartered in NEW YORK, NY. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $1.9M revenue, $269K expenses, $16.6M total assets. 12 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $123K, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 133156197 NEW YORK, NY Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments Research NTEE: H41 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$1.9M
Total Expenses$269K
Total Assets$16.6M
Grant Records12
Funding Total$123K
Filing Years2019–2025

Mission

TO PREVENT AND RESTORE VISION LOSS BY RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THE MACULA AND FURTHERING KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD WITH INNOVATIVE RESEARCH. BECAUSE OF THE IMPACT ON VISION, OUR PRINCIPAL GOALS HAVE BEEN THE STUDY OF AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION, DIABETIC RETINOPATHY AND OTHER RETINAL MACULAR DISEASES.

Where $100 goes at The Macula Foundation Inc

How The Macula Foundation Inc divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 7 years.

$52 Programs the work itself
$48 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $52 for programs

$52
To provide grants and allocations to qualified instituions, organizations and individuals to support and promote research activities in macular associated diseases
All program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

DIRECTOR Dr Jack Dodick
VICE PRESIDENT Dr Kurt Gitter
CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT Dr Lawrence A Yannuzzi
DIRECTOR Dr Nicholas Yannuzzi
TREASURER Jerry H Labowitz
DIRECTOR Matthew Trachtenberg

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$74,252 7 grants
Health & Medicine
$49,000 5 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $1.9M $269K $16.6M
2024 $174K $321K $11.8M
2022 $-2.0M $243K $10.3M
2020 $1.7M $386K $10.4M
2019 $931K $706K $9.7M

Between 2019 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $931K to $1.9M (+103%), with total assets most recently reported at $16.6M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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