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WATER QUALITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

EIN 23-7063420 LISLE, IL

Revenue 2025
$369,501
Expenses 2025
$301,916

Program services were 67.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C05
Classification
1000
Street
2375 CABOT DR

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

EDUCATION & RESEARCH

  • EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF WATER FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

    Expenses $204,745 · Grants $105,185

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.

  • BRET P TANGLEY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • SAM KARGE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DOUG ANDERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DONALD K MCGHEE

    SECRETARY/ TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • LARRY GOTTLIEB

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DEEPAK RAO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • ROBERT MAISNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • CHRIS WILKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • JUDD LARNED

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • SHANNON MURPHY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • LAURA UNDESSER

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • KYLE JONES

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $369,501
    Expenses
    $301,916
    Contributions
    $179,309
    Grants paid
    $105,185
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $293,747
    Expenses
    $461,597
    Contributions
    $205,891
    Grants paid
    $231,571
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $847,145
    Expenses
    $438,458
    Contributions
    $770,273
    Grants paid
    $154,481
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,099,297
    Expenses
    $696,159
    Contributions
    $3,070,873
    Grants paid
    $150,945

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
    $343,033
    Expenses
    $557,400
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,689,251

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $257,281
    Expenses
    $371,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,892,731

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $392,502
    Expenses
    $486,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,001,296

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $146,588
    Expenses
    $333,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,119,365

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $69,982
    Expenses
    $246,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,364,656

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $99,797
    Expenses
    $86,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,404,594

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $965,895
    Expenses
    $280,702
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,408,335

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,211,492
    Expenses
    $351,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,105,831

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.