WARBY PARKER FOUNDATION

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2025 · Form 990PF · revenue $5.3M · expenses $943K · assets $26.3M

EIN

84-2384402

Address

233 SPRING STREET 6TH FLOOR EAST, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1522

Website

WWW.WARBYPARKERFOUNDATION.ORG

NTEE code

E60 Health Support Services (Health Care) published (IRS Business Master File)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

November 2019 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (private foundation) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Private non-operating foundation

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Mission

TO PROMOTE EYE HEALTH AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT EYE CARE AND EYE HEALTH BY (I) CONDUCTING VISION SCREENINGS, EYE EXAMS, AND OTHER EYE CARE SERVICES FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND ADULTS, (II) HELPING PEOPLE IDENTIFY AND ACCESS LOCAL EYE CARE PROVIDERS FOR ADDITIONAL CARE AND SUPPORT AND TRANSPORTING PATIENTS TO AND FROM EYE CARE APPOINTMENTS, (III) PROVIDING, MAINTAINING, AND REPAIRING EYEGLASSES FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND ADULTS, (IV) CONDUCTING CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS, AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT EYE CARE AND EYE HEALTH, (V) CREATING AND DISTRIBUTING EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS RELATED TO EYE CARE AND EYE HEALTH, (VI)LOBBYING FOR ISSUES RELATED TO EYE CARE AND EYE HEALTH, (VII) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH RELATED TO EYE CARE AND EYE HEALTH, (VIII) MAKING GRANTS TO UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND ADULTS TO PAY FOR EYE CARE SERVICES AND PRODUCTS, AND (IX) MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

None of the 7 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

7 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributors listed on Schedule B of the Form 990-PF: name, city and state as filed (street addresses are not shown), with total and noncash contributions for the year. A link to an organization's page is tagged Fuzzy with its name-similarity score (0 to 1) when it rests on name and state; Schedule B lists no EIN, so no link here is an exact identifier match.

Contributors listed here are as reported on the filing. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Funders of this organization

2 grantors reported grants to this organization, $315,000 in all, tax years 2019 to 2024. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

State business registration

• WARBY PARKER FOUNDATION NY, FOREIGN NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, Active, formed 2019-09-16

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.