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MACULAR DEGENERATION FOUNDATION INC

EIN 65-0403437 HENDERSON, NV

Revenue 2024
$833,215
Expenses 2024
$678,654

Program services were 88.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G41
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 531313

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 EDUCATE AND SUPPORT THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM MACULAR DEGENERATION BY PROVIDING INFORMATIONM RESOURCES WORKING WITH LOW VISION CENTERS TO RECYCLE DONATED LOWVISION DEVIICES PROVIDING LOW COST MAGNIFICATION FUNDING GRANTS FOR SUPPORT GROUPS AND TO FURTHER RESEARCH TO RESTORE VISION

Activities or mission (Part I)

BRING AWARENESS TO AND EDUCATE ABOUT MACULAR DEGENERATION. PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING NEW TREATMENTS AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE. PROVIDE GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISEASE FUND GRANTS TO FURTHER RESEARCH INTO THE RESTORATION OF VISION DUE TO MACULAR DEGENERATION

  • RESEARCH PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDING SURVEY AND APPRAISAL OF EMERGING THERAPIES FOR MACULAR DEGENERATION SUPPORT OF MACULAR DEGENERATION PATIENTS BY PROVIDING TOLL-FREE PHONE SUPPORT CREATING REPORTS AND PROVIDING CURRENT INFORMATION VIA 2 WEBSITES WWW.EYESIGHT.ORG AND WWW.MACULAR NEWS.ORG ELECTRONIC AND LARGE PRINT NEWSLETTERS TRAVEL TO CONFERENCES FILM EDIT AND UPLOAD INTERVIEWS AND INFORMATION ON LATEST TREATMENTS AND RESEARCH. DIRECT SUPPORT OF PATIENTS BY WORKING WITH LOW VISION CENTERS AND MANUFACTURES TO FIND LOW COST OR NO COST DEVICES. MAIL OUT DVDS NEWSLETTERS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL POSTING NEWS ARTICLES ON WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

    Expenses $351,243

  • Research Grant - UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211 AMHERST NY 14228 unrestricted funding of Epigenetic Architecture of the RPE and Choroid: Identification of therapeutic targets for AMD

    Expenses $75,000 · Grants $75,000

  • Research Grant - University of Rochester ORACS - John Loux Box 278832 Rochester NY 14627-8832. LUCIDATION OF DISEASE MECHANISMS BETWEEN AMD AND GLAUCOMA: IDENTIFICATION OF THERAPEUTIC TARGETS.

    Expenses $25,000 · Grants $25,000

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

    Expenses $40,000 · Grants $40,000

  • CSVR 360 Bel Air Blvd #110 Mobile AL Grant to fund for low vision research into products and technology to assist persons with Macular Degeneration Grant to fund support for people with AMD to find affordable low vision devices with support and training for devices

    Expenses $60,000 · Grants $60,000

  • Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology Eye and The Chip Eye World Congress. Encouraging research into AI technology for retinal repair and for artificial intelligence technology for automobiles to accommodate for low vision and safety

    Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000

  • VIS Group 46 Genesis Rd. Crossville TN 38555 Grant funds are to be used as needed to support the noble efforts as you requested: 1. InSight on Vision Conference 2. Office Maintenance 3. Community CCTV Project 4. Equipment On-Loan Program 5. Media Publicity 6. TN Council of the Blind.

    Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000

  • Nancy Marks-Becker American Council of the Blind 6300 Shingle Creek Pkwy Ste 195 Brooklyn Center MN 55430 to help sponsor the ACB Brenda Dillon Memorial Walk 2023 in conjunction with the ACB Conference and Convention.

    Expenses $5,000 · Grants $5,000

  • Greater Detroit Agency for Blind & Visually Impaired 26777 Central Park Blvd. Ste 150 Southfield MI 48076 : grant is for Low Vision Activities of Daily Living ADL Technology Training and Orientation & Mobility Program. Grant funds are to be used as needed to support the needs of the macular degeneration community

    Expenses $25,000 · Grants $25,000

As filed on the 2024 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 · 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.

  • Julie Zavala

    Secretary Director of Operations

    Total calculated
    $101,322
    From this org
    $101,322
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Betty Trauernicht

    President CEO

    Total calculated
    $62,000
    From this org
    $62,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Keith Colgan

    VP Director of IT

    Total calculated
    $30,000
    From this org
    $30,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Rylee Zavala

    Director Community Outreach

    Total calculated
    $39,600
    From this org
    $39,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

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
    $833,215
    Expenses
    $678,654
    Contributions
    $699,250
    Grants paid
    $259,047
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $116,476
    Expenses
    $600,881
    Contributions
    $117,010
    Grants paid
    $182,020
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $974,717
    Expenses
    $667,651
    Contributions
    $847,426
    Grants paid
    $251,480

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
    $594,248
    Expenses
    $416,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,967,274

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $606,919
    Expenses
    $500,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,331,605

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2022, reinstated 15 May 2022.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.