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EIN 82-2875554 NAPERVILLE, IL

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Revenue 2025
$432,041
Expenses 2025
$268,847

Program services were 58.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1000
Street
620 HARLOWE CT

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

The Weiss Scholarship Foundation's mission is to empower the children throughout Kenya by ensuring they have access to a great education.

  • Provided the funds to educate high school students, university students, and students in vocational schools in Kenya.

    Expenses $158,418 · Grants $158,418

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Brett H Weiss

    Executive Director/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Eugene A Trainor III

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Warren M Weiss

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Anyango Kigamwa

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Knobloch

    Board Member

    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
    $432,041
    Expenses
    $268,847
    Contributions
    $405,842
    Grants paid
    $158,418
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $280,680
    Expenses
    $182,427
    Contributions
    $279,194
    Grants paid
    $140,130
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $270,374
    Expenses
    $130,488
    Contributions
    $269,031
    Grants paid
    $99,755
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $201,739
    Expenses
    $113,000
    Contributions
    $201,739
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $133,298
    Expenses
    $86,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $209,178

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $101,300
    Expenses
    $71,620
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,000

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $74,174
    Expenses
    $75,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,464

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $124,830
    Expenses
    $53,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,488

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

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

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 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.