Making a Difference in the Eyes of the World $63,994,056 Awarded/Directed since 1997
October 2016
*includes $1,211,946 through Regions/Buck Trust Since 1997 ESFA has funded a variety of eye health and vision projects across the state, from summer camps
support of the Ritter/RPB Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology Research at UAB.
for children with vision impairment and eye care for
Similarly, ESFA is collaborating with national partner Prevent
the medically indigent, to research into blinding eye
Blindness, the nation’s leading volunteer eye health and safety
disease and vision screenings for children. The foun-
organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight, to
dation began its work in 1997 with an endowment of
lead the Alabama Vision Coalition. The AVC’s goal is to help
about $60 million. Over the years it has provided
grantees and agencies increase and enhance their impact on
grant support totaling $60+ million to 60 organizations
eye care in Alabama through collaborations and partner-
and programs in Alabama. Even with this level of gen-
ships. Each of these examples illustrate ESFA’s intent to
erosity, given throughout some turbulent times in the
strengthen the impact of every grant making dollar we contrib-
investment markets, we are proud to hold $50+million
ute by amplifying the work of our grantees.
from which we will continue to award grants. The ESFA Board of Trustees also advises Regions Bank on grants awarded from the Carl and Pauline Buck Trust held at Regions; counting those grants, ESFA neared the $64 million milestone in July 2016. In recent years the foundation has intentionally engaged in strategic funding and collaborative partnerships to leverage the impact of our grantmaking. We are partnering, for example, with the University of Alabama at Birmingham on the Vision of Excellence, a matching fund with the School of Medicine that supports the research efforts of the UAB Department of
AREAS OF SUPPORT ESFA awards grants in the following areas: • Public education regarding preventive and routine eye care and vision screening • Eye care for the medically indigent • Low vision and rehabilitation service • Improved geographical access to general and specialty eye care services • Education and training of eye care professionals and scientific investigators • Research in the prevention and treatment of eye diseases, disabilities or impairment prevalent in Alabama and the development of effective methods of treatment, surgery or rehabilitation • Basic science research on the visual system
Ophthalmology. Another ESFA/UAB matching grant program is the Research Acceleration Initiative, an effort that encourages collaboration among vision scientists across all related disciplines at UAB. ESFA has also joined with Research to Prevent Blindness, the largest private funder of eye research, and Susan and Dowd Ritter for a three-way funding partnership in
MISSION To serve as a catalyst to improve eyesight through research, education and access to care
VISION Making a difference in the eyes of the world
CORE RESEARCH SUPPORT UAB Dept Ophthalmology $13,606,336 42% of research
RECRUITMENT, ENDOWMENT, CAPITAL, BUILDING, EQUIPMENT $12,091,107 37% of research
INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH $6,716,905 21% of research
RESEARCH
Grants by Mission Area RESEARCH
$63,994,056
$32,414,348 51%
EDUCATION
14,765,679 23%
PATIENT CARE
16,814,029 26%
awarded since 1997
PATIENT CARE EQUIPMENT
EDUCATION Professional Training
Consumer Education
CORE EDUCATION SUPPORT UAB Dept Ophthalmology $13,209,802 90% of education
NON-INDIGENT PATIENT CARE $5,777,825 35% of patient care
INDIGENT PATIENT CARE $10,829,170 65% of patient care
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
Grants by Recipient UAB Dept Ophthalmology
$40,837,161
64%
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital
10,409,835
16%
Other UAB
7,414,030
12%
Community
5,333,030
8%
COMMUNITY
AIDB ALSCA CFGB CSVR
Sight Savers Impact
Lakeshore
$58,661,026 to UAB and affiliates Department of Ophthalmology Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation Callahan Eye Hospital School of Medicine (in addition to above amounts)
$39,185,336 1,651,824 10,409,834 1,200,000
Biomedical Engineering
450,000
Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
101,320
Neurobiology
216,889
Pharmacology & Toxicology
143,261
Psychology
150,000
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
120,000
Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
110,000
School of Optometry
2,372,474
School of Education
480,000
School of Health Professions
108,105
UAB Miscellaneous UAB WBHM Alabama Radio Reading Service
OPHTHALMOLOGY
1,863,200
Vision Sciences
School of Public Health
Alabama Chapter Assoc for Ed & Rehab of Blind Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind Alabama Lions Sight Conservation Association Alabama Shakespeare Festival Bell Center for Early Intervention Birmingham Health Care Birmingham Museum of Art Cahaba Valley Health Care Care Assurance System for Aging—Madison Co Community Foundation Greater Birmingham Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation Cooper Green Hospital Eye Clinic Council Exceptional Children/Vision Impairments Crippled Children’s Foundation Eye Injury Registry of Alabama EyeCare Alabama Helen Keller Foundation Research &Education Impact: An Alabama Student Service Initiative Kid One Transport Lakeshore Foundation Lions of Alabama Liz Moore Low Vision Center McWane Center Media for Health Mobile Lions Charity Foundation Nat’l Fed of Blind—NW Alabama Chapter Poarch Band of Creek Indians Prevent Blindness River Region Lions Clubs/Montgomery Lions Sight Savers America Southeastern Diabetes Education Services Travelers Aid Society of Greater Birmingham United Cerebral Palsy Greater Birmingham Veterans Inst Scientific Tech Applications Rsrch Victory Health Partners VIP Selma
CALLAHAN
OTHER UAB
COMMUNITY
10,000 1,280
$63,994,056
87,500
awarded since 1997
Grants by Fiscal Year
8 mil 7 mil 6 mil 5 mil 4 mil 3 mil 2 mil 1 mil 0
98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Total Assets at Fiscal Year-End (in millions) 63.8 68.2
65
60.1 55.1 52.9 56.9
58
60.9 66.7
60
48.6 50.9 55.3 51.3 51.8 54.3 49.5 46.8
70 65 60 55 50 45 98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Financial Report for Years Ended June 30 (in thousands) Net Assets
Donations Received
Net Gain from General/ Investment Admin Activity Expenses
Grants Made
FY1998
$63,762
456
3,984
217
1,205
FY1999
65,757
270
4,740
105
3,473
FY2000
63,401
70
4,989
196
5,197
FY2001
59,425
8
4,854
172
2,891
FY2002
54,403
259
(1,539)
195
3,177
FY2003
51,785
26
125
264
3,407
FY2004
54,938
21
2,782
199
3,752
FY2005
54,383
309
3,121
294
4,858
FY2006
58,442
4
3,876
344
1,754
FY2007
64,806
116
5,145
385
1,724
FY2008
55,792
1
5,432
448
5,538
FY2009
45,768
.5
(1,367)
456
2,928
FY2010
49,806
.8
666
444
1,161
FY2011
50,772
.3
4,296
406
5,986
FY2012
47,505
2.2
521
431
2,609
FY2013
49,037
5.5
2,448
492
2,527
FY2014
51,964
1.1
2,204
490
3,010
FY2015
47,621
1.7
4,334
479
2,988
FY2016
EyeSight Foundation of Alabama 700 South 18th Street, Suite 123 Birmingham, AL 35233 205/488-0771 ď ł 205/325-8335 Fax www.eyesightfoundation.org Torrey DeKeyser, Executive Director Torrey@uab.edu