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FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC

EIN 23-7135845 COLUMBIA, MD

Revenue 2024
$36,615,169
Expenses 2024
$49,532,382

Program services were 75.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H410
Classification
1000
Street
6925 OAKLAND MILLS RD701

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 2408), covering 1 subordinate organization. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ADRIENNE GRAVES PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $12,500
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $12,500
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • KAREN PETROU

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 1 related

  • JASON MORRIS

    EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HAYNES LEA

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVEN ALPER

    CHAIR, DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFFREY FREED

    CHAIR, AUDIT & RISK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID NIXON

    CHAIR, FINANCE & INVESTMENT; TREAS.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN STEINBERG MD

    CHAIR, SCIENCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARYROSE SYLVESTER

    CHAIR, AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WARREN THALER

    CHAIR, NOMINATING & GOVERNANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • GORDON GUND

    DIRECTOR - CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID BRINT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT BURT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARREN DEVOUE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA FIETTA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT HEIDENBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUBER HUANG MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARSHA LINK PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA MANFRE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRADFORD MANNING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANINE MARKS NIXON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EVAN MITTMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE PEINADO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARTHA STEELE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSHUA STEINBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $36,615,169
    Expenses
    $49,532,382
    Contributions
    $31,063,702
    Grants paid
    $22,880,201
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $35,702,558
    Expenses
    $48,226,411
    Contributions
    $31,823,323
    Grants paid
    $21,112,113
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,437,892
    Expenses
    $51,265,440
    Contributions
    $28,901,504
    Grants paid
    $27,872,429

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • THE HERITAGE COMPANY INC.

    $2,235 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $1,286 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility GROUP.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.