Resources

SPACE

The Foundation occupies approximately 12,296 square feet of assignable space.  This space is located on the 2nd floor of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision building at 490 Illinois St. in San Francisco and includes several special laboratories and conference room.

ENDOWMENT

The F.I. Proctor Foundation endowment provides base support for the Foundation. As of June 30, 2012 the endowment had a market value of $35,553,813. Other endowment funds used to support foundation activities include:

Rose Graciano Library Fund
Ralph and Sophie Heintz Lecture and Laboratory Fund
Harry Hind Library Fund
E.C. Proctor Research Professorship Fund
E.C. Proctor Fellowship Fund
Cecilia Vaughan Fellowship Fund/Heintz Endowment

CONTRACTS AND GRANTS

Grants and contracts are the major source of funds supporting expenses and personnel costs associated with research projects. In 2011-2012, $3,484,331 was available in direct costs to the Foundation from grants and contracts. This represents an increase of 2% from the prior year. Federal awards funded 73% of our total grant research budget. Other sources of research income for that year included The Peierls Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Alta California Eye Research, the Pratt Foundation, the Harper-Inglis Fund Memorial Fund for Eye Research, the J. Cox Fund, the American Cancer Society, Research to Prevent Blindness, That Man May See, the Bruce J. and Gladys Ostler Fund, the Deloris Lange Research Fund, the Genevieve Langdon Trust, the Littlefield Trust, the Tumori Foundation, Brooks Family Foundation, the IBM International Foundation and individual donors.

FUNDRAISING

All May See, a 501©(3) organization dedicated to fundraising for vision research at UCSF, is continuing to take an active role in fundraising for the Foundation. Priorities for fundraising include Endowed Chairs, Capital improvements, Endowed Research Programs and support for the Fellowship Training Programs. AMS is also working with the UCSF Foundation, in support of efforts to increase planned giving on behalf of the Proctor Foundation.