Recipient of federal assistance · SAN FRANCISCO, CA

THE SMITH-KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

THE SMITH-KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE received $5.9M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 18 actions, +73% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $24.5M. Its largest awarding agency was National Institutes of Health ($5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$5.9M
New awards
0
Actions
18
Since FY2021
$24.5M
UEI
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Location
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
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Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.8MFY2021
  2. 4.3MFY2022
  3. 4.1MFY2023
  4. 3.9MFY2024
  5. 3.4MFY2025
  6. 5.9MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$5.9M100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 93.867 · Vision Research$4.9M83%
  2. 93.433 · Acl National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research$925K16%
  3. 93.310 · Trans-NIH Research Support$100K1.7%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$5M84%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Administration for Community Living$925K16%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. MAXIMIZING VISUAL POTENTIAL IN AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION$5.7M
    93.867 · Vision Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Feb 22, 2021 – Sep 22, 2026· R01EY027390
  2. ADVANCED SPATIOMOTOR REHABILITATION IN BLINDNESS & VISUAL IMPAIRMENT$4.8M
    93.310 · Trans-NIH Research Support· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jun 30, 2021 – Jul 21, 2026· R01EY024056
  3. REHABILITATION ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTERS (RERC) PROGRAM: RERC ON BLINDNESS AND LOW VISION - RERC ON BLINDNESS AND LOW VISION…$4.6M
    93.433 · Acl National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research· Administration for Community Living· Grant· Aug 8, 2022 – Aug 26, 2026· 90REGE0018
  4. ENABLING AUDIO-HAPTIC INTERACTION WITH PHYSICAL OBJECTS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED$3.6M
    93.867 · Vision Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jul 23, 2021 – Dec 1, 2025· R01EY025332
  5. EFFECTS OF HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA ON VISUOCORTICAL FUNCTIONING IN HIGH-RISK INFANTS$3.1M
    93.867 · Vision Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Aug 12, 2021 – Jul 20, 2026· R01EY030537
  6. INTEROCULAR SUPPRESSION AND SELECTIVE ATTENTION IN AMBLYOPIA - PROJECT SUMMARY LONG-TERM AND CHRONIC VISUAL SUPPRESSION TO THE VISUAL INPUT…$2.1M
    93.867 · Vision Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jul 31, 2023 – Apr 6, 2026· R01EY035346

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $283.4K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $60.9K paid out · -$153.3K received
  • FY2023: $468.5K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $314.5K paid out · $0 received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.