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WILLS EYE ALUMNI SOCIETY

EIN 81-0737759 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2024
$952,227
Expenses 2024
$556,061

Program services were 84.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E19
Classification
1200
Street
840 WALNUT STREET FL 8

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 promote & advance the science & art of ophthalmology, enhance & support the education & training of residents & fellows of ophthalmology at the Wills Eye Institute, encourage & support research in ophthalmology, promote the continued existence of Wills Eye Hospital & to sponsor an annual conference pertaining to ophthalmology.

  • Annual Conference featuring scientific papers, symposia, workshops, and AAO Reception.

    Expenses $268,308 · Revenue $293,687

  • Textbooks, equipment, and expense reimbursement grants for resident doctors in training.

    Expenses $65,563 · Grants $65,563

  • Annual Dinner/Dance held during the Annual Conference for alumni and current residents.

    Expenses $47,753 · Revenue $19,406

  • Grant to Wills Eye Hospital through the Wills Eye Foundation in support of a Glaucoma Social Worker Support Position

    Expenses $45,095 · Grants $45,095

  • Resident education by visiting professors providing training sessions that perpetuate the high quality of the Wills Eye Hospital residency program.

    Expenses $36,579

  • Donations in support of Wills Eye Hospital sponsoring the Resident Wellness Fund

    Expenses $6,250 · Grants $6,250

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.

  • Robert D Behar MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Christopher J Rapuano MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Janine Tabas MD

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Robert C Sergott MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jonathan S Myers MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Robert Bailey Jr MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jonathan Belmont MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Douglas Wismer MD

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Richard Wilson MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Carl Regillo MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Christine Chung MD

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Omesh Gupta MD

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Stephen Lichtenstein MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Joseph Markoff MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • W Reed Kindermann MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mark Pyfer MD

    Imme Past Chair

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $952,227
    Expenses
    $556,061
    Contributions
    $353,259
    Grants paid
    $116,908
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $941,013
    Expenses
    $727,304
    Contributions
    $345,772
    Grants paid
    $124,613
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $459,848
    Expenses
    $479,709
    Contributions
    $53,362
    Grants paid
    $44,725

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
    $560,597
    Expenses
    $483,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,714,098

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $472,507
    Expenses
    $457,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,202,199

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $536,491
    Expenses
    $622,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,444,148

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $547,859
    Expenses
    $842,033
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,594,055

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,512,965
    Expenses
    $704,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,396,902

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 SO.

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.