Retina Research Foundation

Analysis

Retina Research Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1971, 55 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Retina Research Foundation reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.3m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $2.3m to $2.3m (-0.3%), an average of -0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Retina Research Foundation sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pediatric Endocrine Society ($2.3m), Dignity Health Foundation-Inland Empire ($2.3m) and Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $90k. At year end it held assets of $3.9m against liabilities of $100k, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 1 employees.