ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1800

Street

225 W WACKER DR STE 400

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

• PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION - INFORMING THE PUBLIC (ESPECIALLY IN LOW INCOME AND UNDER INSURED AREAS) ABOUT THE BASIC FACTS OF EYE CARE, HEALTH AND SAFETY THROUGH GRASS ROOTS EFFORTS INCLUDING HEALTH FAIRS AND PRESENTATIONS. WE ALSO ASSIST IN FINDING ACCESS TO QUALITY EYE CARE AND SERVICE FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT INSURED. PROVIDING SEED GRANTS TO YOUNG, UP AND COMING RESEARCHERS AT ACCREDITED UNIVERSITIES IN ILLINOIS. ISPB PROVIDES FUNDS TO ENCOURAGE MEDICAL STUDENTS, RESIDENTS, GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND FELLOWS TO FIND CURES AND CAUSES OF EYE DISEASE.

  Expenses $245,131 · Grants $139,825

• COMMUNITY SERVICE - PROMOTING VISION SCREENING AND EXAMS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF EYE TROUBLE AMONG ALL ILLINOIS RESIDENTS WHICH INCLUDES MOBILE VISION CLINICS TO EXPAND ACCESS AND BRING SERVICES DIRECTLY TO COMMUNITIES IN NEED.

  Expenses $97,875

• EYEGLASSES/LOW VISION AIDS - PROVIDING INDIVIDUALS WITH EYEGLASSES/LOW VISION AIDS THEY CANNOT AFFORD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ILLINOIS LOW VISION CLINICS.

  Expenses $42,162

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $385,299

  Expenses

  $426,921

  Contributions

  $117,462

  Grants paid

  $139,825

• 2024

  Revenue

  $612,107

  Expenses

  $413,915

  Contributions

  $116,514

  Grants paid

  $99,390

• 2023

  Revenue

  $263,069

  Expenses

  $382,943

  Contributions

  $133,677

  Grants paid

  $69,745

• 2022

  Revenue

  $435,935

  Expenses

  $392,370

  Contributions

  $207,764

  Grants paid

  $80,195

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

  $689,945

  Expenses

  $371,933

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,911,039

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $364,690

  Expenses

  $335,908

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,619,001

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $390,249

  Expenses

  $332,581

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,606,288

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $925,649

  Expenses

  $334,823

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,807,976

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $222,616

  Expenses

  $291,004

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,099,813

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $211,719

  Expenses

  $268,176

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,935,862

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $349,923

  Expenses

  $220,266

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,781,493

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $745,166

  Expenses

  $200,303

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,021,898

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $330,741

  Expenses

  $208,572

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,668,980

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $272,916

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,423,001

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

• The Board of Trustees U of I

  $42,650

  2025 · Research

• Loyola University Medical Cen

  $39,993

  2024 · Research

• Loyola University Medical Cen

  $39,300

  2025 · Research

• University of Chicago

  $27,900

  2025 · Research

• UNIVERSITY OF IL AT CHICAGO

  $27,375

  2022 · RESEARCH

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

  $24,490

  2023 · RESEARCH

• The Board of Trustees U of I

  $21,665

  2024 · Research

• CARES

  $18,150

  2025 · Research

• UNIVERSITY OF IL AT CHICAGO

  $17,650

  2023 · RESEARCH

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

  $17,470

  2022 · RESEARCH

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

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.

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