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CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 90-0917138 SCHAUMBURG, IL

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Revenue 2025
$750,817
Expenses 2025
$617,345

Program services were 66.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E192
Classification
1000
Street
10 N MARTINGALE RD STE 190

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 190). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO IMPROVE WORLDWIDE PATIENT HEALTH BY SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS THAT ALLOW NEUROSURGEONS TO COLLABORATE GLOBALLY AS RESEARCHERS, LEARNERS, EDUCATORS AND CAREGIVERS.

  • CNS FOUNDATION SUPPORTS CRITICAL RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES THAT ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT OF NEUROSURGICAL PATIENTS, IMPROVE THE DELIVERY OF NEUROSURGICAL CARE, EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF NEUROSURGICAL TREATMENTS, AND EMPOWER NEUROSURGICAL LEADERS TO LEAD INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS IN THE DELIVERY OF QUALITY CARE.

    Expenses $410,463 · Grants $324,901 · Revenue $17,107

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Regina Shupak

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER- CNS

    Total calculated
    $827,636
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $774,791
    Other
    $52,845
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $680,105 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $94,686 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $21,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $31,845 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $827,636 related
  • Alexander Khalessi

    CNS PAST PRESIDENT- PAST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Daniel Hoh

    CNS PRESIDENT-PAST/CNS PAST PRESIDENT - NEW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Garni Barkhoudarian

    CNS VICE PRESIDENT - NEW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Ashok R Asthagiri

    CNS TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Martina Stippler

    CNS PRESIDENT ELECT- PAST/PRESIDENT - NEW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • J Nicole Bentley

    DIRECTOR - PAST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Jason Ellis

    DIRECTOR - PAST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Jeffrey P Mullin

    DIRECTOR - PAST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Julie L Chan

    DIRECTOR - NEW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Ramesh Grandhi

    DIRECTOR - NEW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Lola B Chambless

    CNS SECRETARY, CNSF CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Brian V Nahed

    CNS VICE PRESIDENT-PAST/PRESIDENT ELECT - NEW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Rushna Ali

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • David Dornbos III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related
  • Kunal Vakharia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $750,817
    Expenses
    $617,345
    Contributions
    $251,199
    Grants paid
    $324,901
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $519,385
    Expenses
    $1,002,961
    Contributions
    $262,727
    Grants paid
    $656,046
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $850,737
    Expenses
    $799,718
    Contributions
    $618,052
    Grants paid
    $618,073

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,356,360
    Expenses
    $275,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,387,598
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $577,782
    Expenses
    $215,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,068,901
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $998,059
    Expenses
    $13,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,240,186
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $73,621
    Expenses
    $25,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,379
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $48,259
    Expenses
    $3,686
    Assets (EOY)
    $206,853

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016
Principal officer
Russell Lonser
Mailing address
10 N Martingale Rd Ste 190Schaumburg IL 60173
Website
cns.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS INC

    501(C)(3) · MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATION · DC

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.