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COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC

EIN 39-1531546 MIDDLETON, WI

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Revenue 2025
$1,043,379
Expenses 2025
$998,661

Program services were 78.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G41I
Classification
1000
Street
8383 GREENWAY BLVD STE 600

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

COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (CBI) ELIMINATES PREVENTABLE BLINDNESS WORLDWIDE BY PROVIDING SUSTAINABLE, EQUITABLE SOLUTIONS FOR SIGHT THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND INNOVATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DEDICATED TO RELIEVING HUMAN SUFFERING BY PREVENTING AND CURING BLINDNESS AMONG THE MOST VULNERABLE SECTORS OF SOCIETY, THE YOUNG AND THE OLD, IN THE MOST-NEEDY PARTS OF THE WORLD, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

  • CATARACTS - CBI SUPPORTS FREE CATARACT OPERATIONS FOR THE POOR IN INDIA, PAKISTAN, SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. CBI ALSO PROVIDES EQUIPMENT, MEDICAL CONSUMABLES, AND INTRAOCULAR LENSES (IOLS) FOR FREE EYE OPERATIONS FOR THE POOR IN AREAS OF INDIA. DURING 2025, CBI HELPED SUPPORT OVER 16,000 SURGERIES AND 700,000 SCREENINGS.FOR THE CATARACT PROGRAM, COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (CBI) COLLABORATES WITH HOSPITALS IN INDIA (BHUBANESWAR LV PRASAD EYE HOSPITAL; SHREE JALARAM EYE HOSPITAL - MEGHRAJ,GUJARAT; SHROFF'S CHARITY EYE HOSPITAL - DARYAGANJ, NEW DELHI; JAYAPRIYA MEDICAL FOUNDATION - HUBLI, KARNATAKA; NAV BHARAT JAGRITI KENDRA - HAZARIBAG, JHARKHAND), SOUTH AMERICA (FUNDACION VISION - PARAGUAY), PAKISTAN (LAYTON RAHMATULLA BENEVOLENT TRUST - KARACHI), AND AFRICA (LIONS SIGHTFIRST EYE HOSPITAL - NAIROBI, KENYA) TO PROVIDE CATARACT OPERATIONS FOR THE POOR. CBI COLLABORATES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HOSPITALS AND CLINICS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF OPTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCES TO PROVIDE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LEVEL OF EYE CARE FOR THE UNDERINSURED AND UNINSURED RESIDENTS OF DANE COUNTY, WISCONSIN.

    Expenses $573,866 · Grants $545,991

  • PEDIATRIC EYE CARE - CBI SUPPORTS PROGRAMS IN INDIA AND PARAGUAY TO SCREEN CHILDREN AND PROVIDE FREE PEDIATRIC EYE SURGERIES AND GLASSES. IN ADDITION, CBI SUPPORTS A SCHOOL SCREENING PROGRAM IN MADISON, WISCONSIN FOR FOUR- AND FIVE-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS. DURING 2025, CBI HELPED SUPPORT OVER 350,000 PEDIATRIC SCREENINGS AND 150 SURGERIES.FOR THE PEDIATRIC PROGRAM, CBI COLLABORATES WITH HOSPITALS IN INDIA (SHREE JALARAM EYE HOSPITAL - GUJARAT, INDIA; USHA KIRAN EYE HOSPITAL - MYSORE, INDIA) AND PARAGUAY (FUNDACION VISION) TO ORGANIZE AND FUND PROGRAMS TO SCREEN CHILDREN FOR GLASSES AND OPHTHALMIC SURGERY FOR THE POOR. IN ADDITION, CBI COLLABORATES WITH THE MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, TO ORGANIZE AND FUND SCHOOL SCREENING FOR ALL 4K AND 5K STUDENTS.

    Expenses $89,270 · Grants $44,781

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

    Expenses $85,693 · Grants $69,559

  • EYE CARE INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT - CBI SUPPORTS THE BUILDING OF EYE CARE CENTERS AND THE DONATION OF EQUIPMENT TO INCREASE ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY, SIGHT-RESTORING EYE CARE.DURING 2025, CBI PROVIDED FUNDING FOR EYE CARE EQUIPMENT TO AN EYE CLINIC IN LEBANON.

    Expenses $34,535 · Grants $34,535

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. 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 · 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.

  • Suresh Chandra MD

    FOUNDER/CHIEF VISIONARY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Holm MD

    CHAIRMAN/CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Murray

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Thompson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Lynch JD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathryn Burke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yasmin Bradfield MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Altaweel MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gordon Derzon Mha

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heidi Lucarelli

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reena Chandra MPH

    PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $63,850
    From this org
    $63,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

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
    $1,043,379
    Expenses
    $998,661
    Contributions
    $1,017,846
    Grants paid
    $694,866
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,360,844
    Expenses
    $805,385
    Contributions
    $960,879
    Grants paid
    $509,675
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $529,515
    Expenses
    $735,863
    Contributions
    $520,107
    Grants paid
    $474,677
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $815,137
    Expenses
    $780,664
    Contributions
    $619,447
    Grants paid
    $529,288

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
    $608,356
    Expenses
    $618,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,006,373

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $493,413
    Expenses
    $488,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,038,524

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $609,497
    Expenses
    $551,273
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,043,298

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,117
    Expenses
    $402,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $971,285

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,935
    Expenses
    $650,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $913,875

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $420,210
    Expenses
    $855,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $976,137

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $335,488
    Expenses
    $379,196
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,362,916

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,493,463
    Expenses
    $525,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,449,319

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $811,818
    Expenses
    $731,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $460,979

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $334,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $377,629

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

  • MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $10,918

    2025 GENERAL PURPOSES

  • MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $9,063

    2024 EYEGLASSES

  • MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $6,525

    2023 EYEGLASSES

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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.