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RETINA WORLD CONGRESS

EIN 47-5557898 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$709,352
Expenses 2024
$280,132

Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
S4
Classification
2000
Street
415 LAUREL ST 508

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 · 2024

Mission

TO FOSTER ONGOING DIALOGUE AND TO GENERATE CONSENSUS ABOUT RETINAL DISEASE, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TREATMENTS, BEST PRACTICES, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH.

  • RWC IS A PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION INITIATIVE THAT UNITES INTERNATIONAL RETINA SPECIALISTS IN THE VANGUARD OF SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES AND THERAPEUTIC INNOVATION IN RETINAL HEALTH. THE MISSION OF RETINA WORLD CONGRESS IS TO FOSTER ONGOING DIALOGUE AND TO GENERATE CONSENSUS ABOUT RETINAL DISEASE, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TREATMENTS, BEST PRACTICES, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH WITH A MAJOR EFFORT THROUGH A DESIGNATED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN MAY 2022 THAT FEATURED PRESENTATIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL THOUGHT LEADERS IN RETINA. THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROVIDES ACCREDITED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COURSES, EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSIONS ON CASES AND CONTROVERSIES AND INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, AND ITS PROCEEDINGS ARE PUBLISHED WITH A RETINA JOURNAL. RWC RECOGNIZED THAT RAPID INNOVATION IN RETINA AND THE NEED FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM WAS EVEN GREATER THAN AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE. RWC NOW OFFERS MONTHLY "FREE" WEBINARS, HAS A COLUMN IN THE OSLI RETINA JOURNAL, AN IMAGE BANK OF OVER 40,000 CASES AND A BANK OF SURGICAL VIDEOS.

    Expenses $226,225 · Grants $20,000 · Revenue $675,110

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Debbie Espe

    VICE PRESIDENT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

    Total calculated
    $81,261
    From this org
    $81,261
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25
  • Kourous Rezaei

    IMMEDIATELY PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $4,167
    From this org
    $4,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Rishi Singh

    EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tarek Hassan

    EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Baruch Kuppermann

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $5,833
    From this org
    $5,833
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jorge Rocha

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lihteh Wu

    PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Aleksandra Rachitskaya

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Judy Kim

    EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • J Fernando Arevalo

    EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $709,352
    Expenses
    $280,132
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $20,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $381,001
    Expenses
    $227,115
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $21,025
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $572,383
    Expenses
    $269,220
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $166,001
    Expenses
    $163,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,315
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $50,001
    Expenses
    $108,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,695
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $223,411
    Expenses
    $126,046
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,570
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,698
    Expenses
    $94,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,214
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $352,209
    Expenses
    $446,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $129,466
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $986,934
    Expenses
    $764,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $225,236
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.