Nonprofit · EIN 01-0196359
IRIS NETWORK
Tax-exempt · PORTLAND, ME 04102
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 30, 2025 | 990 | $2,911,135 | $2,416,875 | $494,260 | $11,284,559 | $1,825,593 | $9,458,966 |
| September 30, 2024 | 990 | $3,227,535 | $2,560,151 | $667,384 | $10,418,592 | $1,801,274 | $8,617,318 |
| September 30, 2023 | 990 | $2,596,794 | $2,399,939 | $196,855 | $9,430,770 | $1,819,398 | $7,611,372 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $611,985
- Program service revenue
- $1,873,430
- Investment income
- $164,546
- Net rental income
- $194,990
- Net gain from sales of assets
- -$655
- Net income from sales of inventory
- -$787
- Other revenue
- $261,174
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $180,344
- Other salaries and wages
- $1,315,699
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $1,802,654
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $82,257
- Occupancy
- $10,567
- Depreciation
- $173,415
- Program services (functional)
- $1,761,768
- Management and general (functional)
- $435,660
- Fundraising (functional)
- $219,447
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $10,418,592
- Total assets, end of year
- $11,284,559
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,825,593
- Net assets, end of year
- $9,458,966
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $3,682,162
- Publicly traded securities
- $5,965,885
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $9,127,811
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $331,155
- Gross receipts
- $3,304,283
- Employees
- 41
- Volunteers
- 58
- Year formed
- 1905
- State of legal domicile
- ME
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Barnwell | President/CEO Officer | 40 | $173,552 | $4,860 |
| Robert Wakefield | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew B MacLean | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Merrill E Barter | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Pauline Lamontagne | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Todd McKee | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Jane Eberle | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Terri Grijalva | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| David Stuchiner | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Holly McCarthy | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Nicholas Giudice | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended September 30, 2024: 13 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Barnwell | President/CEO Officer | 40 | $132,040 | $2,856 |
| Robert Wakefield | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Holly Knight McCarthy | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| David J Stuchiner | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Johnathan G Nathans | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Nicholas Giudice | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew B MacLean | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Merrill E Barter | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Pauline Lamontagne | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Todd McKee | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Jane Eberle | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Terri Grijalva | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Lisa Hicks | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended September 30, 2023: 14 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Barnwell | President/Executive Direct Officer | 40 | $169,813 | $1,158 |
| Robert Wakefield | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Doris Ann Dennee | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Holly Knight McCarthy | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| David J Stuchiner | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Johnathan G Nathans | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Nicholas Giudice | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Adam Sise | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrew B MacLean | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Merrill E Barter | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Pauline Lamontagne | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Mara Pressman | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Todd McKee | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Jane Eberle | Director Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 189 PARK AVE, PORTLAND, ME 04102-2909
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- David Barnwell, 189 Park Avenue, Portland, ME 04102
- Signed the 990
- David Barnwell, President and CEO
- Phone
- (207) 774-6273
- Website
- www.theiris.org
- Return prepared by
- Purdy Powers & Company
Mission
The Iris Network helps people who are visually impaired or blind attain independence and community integration.
Program accomplishments
- Community-based vision rehabilitation services: the community-based rehabilitation services program evaluates consumer needs based upon functional vision loss and develops a program of individualized services provided by nationally certified professional vision rehabilitation therapists. These services allow individual consumers who may be transition-age youth, working-age adults, or senior citizens to carry on the functions necessary to maintain the level of independence they desire. Program services are delivered in the consumer's community throughout the State of Maine on an itinerant basis and include vision rehabilitation therapy and counseling in the area of adjustment to blindness. Services may also be provided virtually when in-person meetings are not feasible.Expenses $1,133,218 · revenue $1,424,152
- Resident support services program: The Iris Network provides ongoing resident support services to certain visually impaired or blind residents of Iris Park Apartments who have additional disabilities. Iris Park Apartments features (30) one and two bedroom independent living apartments which are owned by The Iris Network. Visually impaired or blind tenants with multiple disabilities are able to live as independently as they desire, schedule their own activities, and create a personal plan for assisted living services. The Iris Network offers vision rehabilitation therapy to provide tenants support in all areas of independent living. The resident support services program at Iris Park Apartments is different from the rest of the programs offered by The Iris Network in that these services are offered on an ongoing basis, rather than as instruction or teaching designed to allow clients to learn new skills and use those skills independently after services have been received.Expenses $339,803 · revenue $334,389
- Rehab training center: The campus-based vision rehabilitation training center provides an individualized, intensive vocational development program. Coursework addresses multiple areas of learning including vocational development, accessible technology, orientation and mobility, braille, independent living skills, and manual arts. Students live in a dormitory apartment within the Iris Park Apartments residence close to the training center and downtown Portland. The group living environment includes a shared kitchen, and living room, as well as shared yard and laundry and four private bedrooms. Students can participate in after-hours recreational activities organized several times a week with opportunities to explore Portland and Southern Maine.Expenses $275,926 · revenue $209,210
- Low Vision Center: The Iris Network's Low Vision Center provides optical aids and equipment such as video magnifiers and light-filtered lenses to help individuals experiencing vision loss maximize the use of their remaining vision.Expenses $12,821 · revenue $166,853
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in September, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | September 30, 2026 | February 16, 2027 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | September 30, 2025 | February 17, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | September 30, 2024 | February 18, 2025 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 01-0196359
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1936
- Accounting year ends
- September
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $11,284,559
- Income (IRS master file)
- $3,304,283
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | September 2025 | $2,911,135 | $2,416,875 | $11,284,559 | XML |
| 990 | September 2024 | $3,227,535 | $2,560,151 | $10,418,592 | XML |
| 990 | September 2023 | $2,596,794 | $2,399,939 | $9,430,770 | XML |
| 990 | September 2022 | $7,149,596 | $2,223,409 | $9,166,873 | IRS |
| 990 | September 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 01-0196359).
Questions about IRIS NETWORK
- What is the EIN of IRIS NETWORK?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of IRIS NETWORK is 01-0196359.
- Is IRIS NETWORK tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1936.
- Are donations to IRIS NETWORK tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does IRIS NETWORK file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of IRIS NETWORK due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending September 30, 2026) is due February 16, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did IRIS NETWORK last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended September 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of IRIS NETWORK?
- The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 names David Barnwell.
- Who are the officers and directors of IRIS NETWORK?
- The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 lists 11 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $173,552 (David Barnwell, President/CEO).
- How much revenue does IRIS NETWORK have?
- On its 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $2,911,135, expenses of $2,416,875 and total assets of $11,284,559 at year end.
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