The American Uveitis Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
721169183
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Phone
2817979080
Rating
32
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$75,930
Expenses
$47,469
Assets
$664,241
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Jen Thorne (Director)
  • Russell Read (Director)
  • Justine Smith (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See Schedule O

What it reported doing in 2025

Mentorship program - The career development committee (led by Stephanie Llop, Marez Megalla) created and disseminated a survey for uveitis specialists who were interested in mentorship/menteeship. - Successfully matched 29 senior uveitis specialists with early career uveitis specialists based on career goals. The first meetings were held either virtually or at AAO 2025 in Orlando, Fl. Educational ventures - The education committee continued the following courses: 1. Virtual Fellows Uveitis Course, led by Natasha Kesav, Akshay Thomas, Rachel Patel, Maura Di Nicola, Paulina Liberman, and Arjun Sood. Topics included: Surgical considerations in uveitis, Management of pediatric uveitis and uveitis in pregnancy, Landmark studies in uveitis. 2. Virtual Journal Club, led by Kareem Moussa and Jennifer Lee. Papers reviewed included: ADJUST trial and "Efficacy of Subcutaneous and Intravenous Tocilizumab in Noninfectious Uveitis"3. Collaborated with AAO Update on Uveitis Webinar (Chris Henry, Jennifer Lee, Brian Do). The topic: Local therapies for uveitis (speakers: Kareem Moussa, Arjun Sood, Jessica Weinstein, and Marez Megalla) Communications (Natasha Kesav) - Expanded our membership and social media engagement on YUS Twitter and Instagram, generating significant international and local interest in YUS activities. - Participated in YoungMD connect events, a networking event to increase our specialties visibility YO representative (Akshay Mentreddy) - Presented cases at Real World Ophthalmology (RWO), network and raise uveitis speciality visibility- Wrote an article for Young Ophthalmology (YO Info) on the AAO website "From Creepy to Clear: Tips to Help YOs From Fearing Uveitis." Membership (Jennifer Lee) - Increased YUS membership by 34 members in year 2025 - Increased YUS telegram membership by 8 members in year 2025 - Collected, compiled, and shared dot phrases from our members on the YUS listserv - Helped UVEA taskforce better understand barriers to AUS membership by contacting all of YUS members who were not current non-AUS members in YUS, generating a survey and soliciting their opinions. - Created and hosted an YUS social hour at AAO in Miami, an evening of networking and also learning about the following topics: How to build a uveitis practice (speakers: Eduardo Uchiyama, Paul Gaudio, Arthi Venkat, Karen Ambrust) and updates on billing (speaker: Jennifer Cao).

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 6
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 37.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.99; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.