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STAAR OVARIAN CANCER

EIN 84-4672869 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$299,828
Expenses 2024
$56,165

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H12
Classification
1000
Street
680 N LAKE SHORE DR STE 110 # 1185

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

STAAR EXISTS TO ADVOCATE FOR AND RAISE FUNDS FOR RESEARCH SPECIFICALLY ON THE LOW-GRADE SEROUS CARCINOMA SUB-TYPE OF OVARIAN CANCER IN THE UNTED STATES. THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE DROVE AWARENESS OF THE SYMPTOMS OF OVARIAN CANCER AND THE UNDER-FUNDING OF RESEARCH FOR THE LGSC SUB-TYPE. WE MAKE CONNECTIONS WITH RESEARCHERS AND ULTIMATELY HAVE MADE THREE GRANTS, SOOME WITH FUNDS RAISED IN 2021.

Activities or mission (Part I)

STAAR EXISTS TO ADVOCATE FOR AND RAISE FUNDS FOR RESEARCH SPECIFICALLY ON THE LOW-GRADE SEROUS CARCINOMA SUB-TYPLE OF OVARIAN CANCER IN THE UNITED STATES. WE DRIVE AWARENESS OF THE SYMPTOBS OF OVARIAN CANCER AND THE UNDER-FUNDING OF RESEARCH FOR THE LGSC SUB-TYPE. WE STRENGTHEN OUR CONNECTIONS WITH RESEARCHERS TO UNDERSTAND RESEARCH NEEDS, FUNDING NEEDS, AND HISTORICALLY RAISED ENOUGH FUNDS THROUGH DONATIONS TO GIVE THREE RESEARCH GRANTS FOR LGSOC. ONE OF THE FUNDED STUDIES WAS FUNDED WITH MONEY DONATED IN 2021.

  • CONTINUING SUPPORTING AND EXPANDING AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN OF LGSOC.

    Expenses $47,515 · Revenue $7,050

  • AWARDED RESEARCH GRANTS FOR LGSOC

  • CREATED AND CONDUCTED A SURVERY OF LGSOC PATIENTS PERPECTIVES ON TREATMENTS AND DOCTOR INTERACTIONS WHICH ARE PRESENTED AT LGSOC RESEARCH CONFERENCE. PLAN, SUPPORT, AND HOLD AN EXTERNALLY-LED PATIENT FOCUSED DRUG DEVELOPMENT MEETING AS DIRECTED BY THE US FDA FOR PATIENTS TO PRESENT THEIR PERSPECTIVES ON LIVING WITH THEIR RARE DISEASE AND THEIR DAILY LIFE WITH THE CURRENT TREATMENTS. PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR PATIENTS TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND SIDE EFFECTS.

    Expenses $8,650 · Revenue $3,000

  • ANY OTHER MARKETING RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES THAT BENEFITS AWARENESS OF LGSC SUB-TYPE.

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.

  • CONNIE BELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • MARK BLAKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELLIE HABIB

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIFFANY LOCKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BAILEY WOLFE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLE ANDREWS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    9

  • CHRISTINA CAMPBELL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MORGAN GAYNOR

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KARI NEUMEYER

    V-CHAIR MARK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • EMMA SCHLAMM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALYSSA TOOMES

    V-CHAIR FUND

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $299,828
    Expenses
    $56,165
    Contributions
    $289,414
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $399,588
    Expenses
    $277,067
    Contributions
    $327,751
    Grants paid
    $153,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $310,800
    Expenses
    $513,766
    Contributions
    $310,800
    Grants paid
    $476,000

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $168,253
    Expenses
    $32,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,771

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $96,688
    Expenses
    $2,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,383

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $108,603
    Expenses
    $2,155
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,448

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.