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Name:	Glaucoma Research Foundation
Address:	251 Post Street, Suite 600
	San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone:	415-986-3162 800-826-6693
Web Address:	www.glaucoma.org

Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

GRF provides education and support for those with glaucoma, their families and friends. The organization’s website has a range of information and news for glaucoma patients and their families. GRF provides educational brochures and an informative booklet, “Understanding and Living with Glaucoma.” GRF also provides an 800 number answered by an experienced information specialist who provides support and assistance. The organization produces a free newsletter, “Gleams,” that provides the latest information about glaucoma treatments and research. GRF has funded such grants as the Collaborative Normal Tension Glaucoma Study, the first controlled clinical trial to establish that lowering eye pressure preserves vision. Another research grant identified one of the first genes responsible for glaucoma. There is a major collaborative study in its sixth year, Catalyst For a Cure (CFC), which is redefining how glaucoma research is conducted in order to speed the process of discovery to find a cure. The CFC research scientists, specialists in genetics, nerve regeneration, and neurodevelopment, are working in real-time collaboration to understand neuronal loss in glaucoma and identify targets for intervention.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, GRF's program expenses were:

Research	1,851,508
Education	843,411
Total Program Expenses:	$2,694,919

Chief Executive : Thomas M. Brunner, President and CEO

Compensation*:

$219,447

Chair of the Board: Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Director of Glaucoma Service, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

Board Size: 21

Paid Staff Size: 9

*July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, special events, grant proposals, Internet appeals, and planned giving.

Fund raising costs were 8% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $4,120,659, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on GRF's audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2008.

Source of Funds
Donations and bequests	3,834,266
Special events (net)	286,393
Change in value of charitable trusts	54,947
Other revenue	22,437
Investment income	-373,300
Total Income	$3,824,743

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 84%  Fund Raising: 11%  Administrative: 5%

Total income				$3,824,743
	Program expenses			$2,694,919
	Fund raising expenses			348,631
	Administrative expenses			162,123
Total expenses				$3,205,673
Income in Excess of Expenses				619,070
Beginning net assets				4,893,358
Ending net assets				5,512,428
Total liabilities				282,252
Total assets				$5,794,680