High Impact Research Grant
Funding Amount
$50,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Twice a year
- Next expected
- October 31, 2026
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Deadlines each year: October 31 · November 1
From the program guidelines: “Funding Cycle: November 1st through October 31st”
Overview
A research funding program by EBAA supporting high-impact projects in eye banking and corneal transplantation.
Focus Areas:
- Corneal tissue engineering and viability
- Solutions to global corneal tissue shortage
- Research advancing corneal transplantation outcomes
- Mitigation of surgical-quality donor cornea shortages
What They Fund:
- Research proposals addressing critical gaps in eye banking
- Tissue engineering and processing innovations
- Studies to increase usable donated corneas for transplant
Geographic Scope: International (researchers affiliated with institutions worldwide)
Funding Cycle: November 1st through October 31st
Contact Information:
- Eye Bank Association of America
- PO Box 220035
- Chantilly, VA 20151
- Phone: 202.775.4999
- Fax: 202.429.6036
- Website: restoresight.org
Background: As of 2019, EBAA awarded its 2020 High Impact Research Grant to Dr. Mark McDaniell at Centre for Eye Research Australia for "Tissue Engineered Corneal Endothelium" research, addressing the global shortage of surgical-quality donor corneas.
What Eye Bank Association of America actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 10
- Total given
- $133K
- Median grant
- $7,500
- Range
- $7,500–$50K
- By dollars: Florida 38%, California 13%, Iowa 11%. Top recipient cities: Coral Gables, FL; Iowa City, IA; Cleveland, OH.
- 40% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL
$50K
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA
$15K
Case Western · Cleveland, OH
$13K
Cornea Society · San Francisco, CA
$10K
Stein Eye Institute · Los Angeles, CA
$7,500
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
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