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GENEVA LIONS WE SERVE FOUNDATION

EIN 36-3634647 GENEVA, IL

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Revenue 2025
$36,595
Expenses 2025
$25,320

Program services were 90.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 382

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

Primary exempt purpose

THE GENEVA LIONS WE SERVE FOUNDATION ("GLWSF") HAS THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AID TO THE BLIND, VISUALLY IMPAIRED, DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED. IT IS TO PROVIDE THAT AID BY PERFORMING SERVICE PROJECTS INCLUDING COLLECTING OLD EYEGLASSES AND RECYCLING THEM FOR REUSE; PAYING FOR NEW EYEGLASSES FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEM AND PERFORMING FREE HEARING AND EYE SIGHT SCREENING FOR THE PUBLIC.THE FOUNDATION ALSO PROVIDES GRANTS TO OTHER SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS IN THE GENEVA AND ST. CHARLES HIGH SCHOOLS.

  • GLWSF PROVIDED SOCIAL SERVICE GRANTS TO LOCAL 501C3 ORGANIZATIONS

    Expenses $12,500 · Grants $12,500

  • GLWSF PROVIDED 120 COMMUNITY RESIDENTS WITH FREE EYE EXAMS AND EYEGLASSES. THESE RESIDENTS WERE REFERRED TO GLWSF BY AREA HOMELESS SHELTERS AND FREE MEDICAL CLINICS.GLWSF COLLECTED AND RECYCLED SEVERAL THOUSAND PAIRS OF DISCARDED GLASSES AND HEARING AIDS.

    Expenses $5,818

  • GLWSF GRANTED SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS OF GENEVA AND ST. CHARLES, IL HIGH SCHOOLS.

    Expenses $4,500 · Grants $4,500

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Christine Lazaris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Tusken

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elliot Bortner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Lebin

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bill Minderman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Willsey

    TREASURER

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $36,595
    Expenses
    $25,320
    Contributions
    $50,738
    Grants paid
    $17,000

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2024

Tax period
1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
Principal officer
Jeffrey Willsey
Mailing address
PO BOX 382GENEVA IL 60134
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2023, reinstated 15 May 2023.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.