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KANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC

EIN 27-0704299 KANSAS CITY, MO

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Revenue 2025
$162,888
Expenses 2025
$213,198

Program services were 42.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E32
Classification
1000
Street
705 VIRGINIA AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The mission of the Kansas City Free Eye Clinic is to provide accessible, high-quality eye care services and corrective lenses to communities in need in the Kansas City metro.

  • In 2025, KCFEC experienced a year of growth and preparation for our biggest year ever. In 2025, KCFEC hired a new Executive Director who brings over 10 years of experience working with our service population and right in our clinic's neighborhood. A new Program and Clinic Manager was hired in June; she brings an MSW and 5 years in domestic violence and animal welfare services. With these leadership changes, KCFEC reduced barriers to service by removing the pre-application process, removing verification and hosting more clinics around the city than ever before - 30 clinics at our physical clinic, 14 off-site clinics, 17 screening events and 45 order/pick-up days. In 2025, KCFEC provided 459 eye exams, and 622 pairs of glasses. The KCFEC team prepared for 2026: 1000 patients by increasing program partnerships and growing our current relationship with the Kansas City Public Library to bring vision care directly into the community. Volunteers provided 521.5 hours of service and $21,403 of economic impact.

    Expenses $90,097 · Revenue $476

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.

  • Kaitlin Dempsey

    Executive Director 5.5.25-12.31.25

    Total calculated
    $56,114
    From this org
    $52,769
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,345
    Hours/week
    40

  • Birju Solanki

    Executive Director 1.1.25-1.17.25

    Total calculated
    $20,829
    From this org
    $20,829
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Burton

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Andrew Tippin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carlynn Castle

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Burton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Craig Aukamp

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jamie Weiser

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LaTonya Rogers

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maninder Pabla

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Spencer Noyes

    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
    $162,888
    Expenses
    $213,198
    Contributions
    $173,837
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $246,219
    Expenses
    $283,039
    Contributions
    $262,224
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $164,430
    Expenses
    $249,647
    Contributions
    $159,365
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $390,032
    Expenses
    $226,399
    Contributions
    $389,789
    Grants paid
    $44,245

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
    $238,433
    Expenses
    $112,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $183,750

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $95,713
    Expenses
    $88,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,909

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $107,520
    Expenses
    $97,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,580

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $120,911
    Expenses
    $60,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,867

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $65,374
    Expenses
    $82,635
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,857

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $72,106
    Expenses
    $32,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,658

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Birju Solanki
Mailing address
705 Virginia AvenueKansas City MO 64106
Website
www.kcfreeeyeclinic.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.