{"entity":{"id":"ocular-melanoma-foundation","kind":"institution","name":"Ocular Melanoma Foundation","aka":["OMF"],"tldr":"A US foundation that funds ocular (uveal) melanoma research and offers education and support to patients and carers.","summary":"The Ocular Melanoma Foundation describes itself on its home page as a resource for eye cancer research funding, education and patient and carer support, and states that it has raised more than $4 million. The page also points patients to clinical trials for metastatic disease. It gives its EIN as 20-0355509 and an address on K Street in Washington, DC; the IRS lists it there with tax exemption from March 2005 and a filing for 2023.","asOf":"2026-11-05","links":[{"label":"Ocular Melanoma Foundation home page","url":"https://ocularmelanoma.org/"},{"label":"IRS record (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200355509"}],"tags":[],"related":["a-cure-in-sight","ocumel-uk"],"cancers":["uveal-melanoma"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["The foundation's site is a single page whose news items date from 2021, so its current programmes are not stated beyond what is above."],"city":"Washington, DC","country":"US","lat":38.907,"lng":-77.037,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://ocularmelanoma.org","programs":["Ocular melanoma research funding","Patient and carer education and support"]},"route":"/institutions/ocular-melanoma-foundation/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"a-cure-in-sight","kind":"institution","name":"A Cure In Sight","route":"/institutions/a-cure-in-sight/"},{"id":"ocumel-uk","kind":"institution","name":"Ocular Melanoma UK","route":"/institutions/ocumel-uk/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"uveal-melanoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Uveal melanoma","route":"/cancers/uveal-melanoma/"}]}}