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Foundation Fighting Blindness

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Driving research to save and restore sight

The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), macular degeneration, Usher Syndrome, and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases. Since its inception in 1971, The Foundation has raised over $500 million and funded thousands of research studies at hundreds of prominent institutions. The FFB funds leading-edge research in promising areas such as genetics, gene therapy, retinal cell transplantation, artificial retinal implants, and pharmaceutical and nutritional therapies.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

80.34Overall score
out of 100

72.50Financial score
out of 100

96.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$71,952,870

Total expenses · USD$28,422,374

Program expenses

$19,185,102.45 recorded amount

67.5%

Fundraising expenses

$6,935,059.26 recorded amount

24.4%

Administrative expenses

$2,245,367.55 recorded amount

7.9%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.12 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: William T. Schmidt
Recorded compensation: $370,504.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.30%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Foundation Fighting Blindness
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	96.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), macular degeneration, Usher Syndrome, and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases. Since its inception in 1971, The Foundation has raised over $500 million and funded thousands of research studies at hundreds of prominent institutions. The FFB funds leading-edge research in promising areas such as genetics, gene therapy, retinal cell transplantation, artificial retinal implants, and pharmaceutical and nutritional therapies.
`ein` EIN	23-7135845
`tot_exp` Total expenses	28422374.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.079
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.12
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.244
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.675
`fscore` Financial score	72.5
`leader` Recorded leader	William T. Schmidt
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	370504.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.013000000000000001
`motto` Tagline	Driving research to save and restore sight
`name` Charity name	Foundation Fighting Blindness
`tot_rev` Total revenue	71952870.0
`score` Overall score	80.34
`state` State code	MD
`subcategory` Subcategory	Medical Research
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	19185102.450000003
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	6935059.256
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	2245367.546

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 23-7135845
Source category: Health
Source subcategory: Medical Research
Recorded location: Maryland (MD)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.