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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$815,137
Total expenses
$780,664
Contributions and grants received
$619,447
Grants paid
$529,288
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$214,350
Other revenue
-$18,660
Total assets, end of year
$700,105
Total liabilities, end of year
$32,907
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$667,198
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$596,679
Management and general expenses
$80,412
Fundraising expenses
$103,573
Program service expenses (Part III)
$596,679

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $76,774

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $542,673

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $180,675

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $14,724 · excluded $14,724

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $325,224

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $125,598

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $199,626

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $199,626 · excluded $199,626

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $76,774

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $18,660

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$18,660 · excluded -$18,660

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $529,288 · program services $529,288

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $64,978 · program services $25,006 · management and general $16,233 · fundraising $23,739

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $41,933 · program services $16,137 · management and general $10,476 · fundraising $15,320

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $8,209 · program services $3,159 · management and general $2,051 · fundraising $2,999

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $18,421 · management and general $18,421

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $6,168 · management and general $6,168

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $25,025 · management and general $8,509 · fundraising $16,516

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $3,824 · fundraising $3,824

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $35,213 · program services $9,618 · management and general $9,924 · fundraising $15,671

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $18,884 · program services $1,708 · management and general $1,109 · fundraising $16,067

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $12,802 · program services $4,972 · management and general $3,196 · fundraising $4,634

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,732 · program services $1,732

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $4,095 · program services $1,491 · management and general $1,189 · fundraising $1,415

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,716 · program services $1,045 · management and general $679 · fundraising $992

  • 24a · Other expenses: MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIA

    total $3,256 · program services $1,253 · management and general $813 · fundraising $1,190

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $4,120 · program services $1,270 · management and general $1,644 · fundraising $1,206

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $18,236 · end of year $69,582

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $42,173 · end of year $22,109

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $75,000 · end of year $20,000

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $4,055 · end of year $4,473

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $829,859 · end of year $551,875

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $16,827 · end of year $13,147

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $20,223 · end of year $18,919

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $3,789 · end of year $4,933

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $33,737 · end of year $27,974

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $720,109 · end of year $238,401

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $248,738 · end of year $428,797

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (CBI) ELIMINATES PREVENTABLE BLINDNESS WORLDWIDE BY PROVIDING SUSTAINABLE, EQUITABLE SOLUTIONS FOR SIGHT THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND INNOVATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DEDICATED TO RELIEVING HUMAN SUFFERING BY PREVENTING AND CURING BLINDNESS AMONG THE MOST VULNERABLE SECTORS OF SOCIETY, THE YOUNG AND THE OLD, IN THE MOST-NEEDY PARTS OF THE WORLD, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $244,235 · Grants $214,111

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $225,413 · Grants $196,942

  • PEDIATRIC EYE CARE - CBI SUPPORTS PROGRAMS IN INDIA, PARAGUAY, AND GAMBIA TO SCREEN CHILDREN AND PROVIDE FREE PEDIATRIC EYE SURGERIES AND GLASSES FREE OF COST. IN ADDITION, CBI FUNDS A SCHOOL SCREENING PROGRAM IN MADISON, WISCONSIN FOR ALL 4K AND 5K STUDENTS.FOR THE PEDIATRIC PROGRAM, CBI COLLABORATES WITH HOSPITALS IN INDIA (SHREE JALARAM EYE HOSPITAL - MEGHRAJ, AND TEJAS EYE HOSPITAL - SURAT IN GUJARAT, INDIA; USHA KIRAN EYE HOSPITAL - MYSORE, INDIA) AND PARAGUAY (FUNDACION VISION) TO ORGANIZE AND FUND PROGRAMS TO SCREEN CHILDREN FOR GLASSES, OPD, AND OPHTHALMIC SURGERY FOR THE POOR ALL FREE OF COST. IN ADDITION, CBI COLLABORATES WITH THE MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, TO ORGANIZE AND FUND SCHOOL SCREENING FOR ALL 4K AND 5K STUDENTS. DURING 2022, CBI SUPPORTED OVER 36,000 PEDIATRIC EYE SCREENINGS, 67 EYE SURGERIES, AND 1,500 GLASSES.

    Expenses $127,031 · Grants $118,236

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Suresh Chandra MD

    FOUNDER/CHIEF VISIONARY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gordon Derzon Mha

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Holm MD

    VICE CHAIRMAN/CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Thompson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Lynch

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anant Baliga

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Suvojit Basu

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $3,100
    From this org
    $3,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Yasmin Bradfield

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Altaweel MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Murray

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reena Chandra

    PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $61,878
    From this org
    $61,878
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
4 April 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202300959349300635

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