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USHER 1F COLLABORATIVE INC

EIN 46-4309387 NEWTONVILLE, MA

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Revenue 2025
$743,572
Expenses 2025
$885,485

Program services were 80.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H40
Classification
8000
Street
321 WALNUT ST 228

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

To fund medical research to find an effective treatment to save or restore the vision of those affected with Usher Syndrome Type 1F.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $712,836 · Grants $696,990

As filed on the 2025 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Melissa Chaikof

    Chair and Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elliot Chaikof

    Vice Chair and Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Frank Gentile

    Treasurer and Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jared Root

    Secretary and Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Joshua Cohen

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel Root

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julian Seewald

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sari L Springer

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heather Rosenstein

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eric Halper

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Margi Levitt

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dorie Shapiro

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $743,572
    Expenses
    $885,485
    Contributions
    $463,492
    Grants paid
    $696,990
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $845,716
    Expenses
    $871,099
    Contributions
    $623,437
    Grants paid
    $671,155
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $446,533
    Expenses
    $646,264
    Contributions
    $429,829
    Grants paid
    $432,142
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,082,978
    Expenses
    $932,832
    Contributions
    $1,081,791
    Grants paid
    $719,100

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
    $597,802
    Expenses
    $840,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,173,759

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,233,929
    Expenses
    $482,557
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,398,235

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $783,556
    Expenses
    $435,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $646,863

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,468
    Expenses
    $465,981
    Assets (EOY)
    $298,956

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $425,468
    Expenses
    $440,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,469

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $469,810
    Expenses
    $226,997
    Assets (EOY)
    $370,001

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $215,611
    Expenses
    $102,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $127,188

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 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Melissa Chaikof
Mailing address
165 Bigelow RdNewton MA 02465
Website
http://usher1f.org

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

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

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Grants received

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

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 11 November 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.