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EIN 23-2920978 ERIE, PA

Largest nonprofits in Pennsylvania

Revenue 2023
$485,916
Expenses 2023
$1,399,459

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q300
Classification
1000
Street
431 SHAWNEE 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 · 2023

Mission

To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.

  • To eliminate treatable blindness in Guatemala through the training of eye care professionals and nationwide development of eye care infrastructure.

    Expenses $1,367,170

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dr Douglas Villella

    EXEC. DIR/PRES

    Total calculated
    $7,200
    From this org
    $7,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Frank Villa Od

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Linda Boss

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Juan Llarena

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Christian J Wurst Jr

    PAST TREAS.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $485,916
    Expenses
    $1,399,459
    Contributions
    $306,649
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $185,197
    Expenses
    $133,483
    Contributions
    $147,485
    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
    $1,293,960
    Expenses
    $825,950
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,307,347
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $374,127
    Expenses
    $290,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,227,247
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $374,127
    Expenses
    $290,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,227,247
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $598,951
    Expenses
    $684,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $905,371
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $234,326
    Expenses
    $192,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,049,016
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $299,277
    Expenses
    $163,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $909,045
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $361,096
    Expenses
    $215,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $683,653
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $237,019
    Expenses
    $403,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $468,179
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $295,422
    Expenses
    $305,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $678,973
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,488
    Expenses
    $214,981
    Assets (EOY)
    $736,526

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.