· Public charity
The Fistula Foundation
Fistula Foundation works to end the suffering caused by the childbirth injury obstetric fistula by getting as many women treated as possible.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $1,323,980 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,049,695 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,725,715 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $561k
- $250k+2 grants · $743k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cure BE Team International | $380,223 |
| Heal Africa | $362,943 |
| Hope Foundation | $248,059 |
| Advancing the Gospel In Ango | $150,000 |
| Maternal Help Hope | $103,600 |
| Healing Hands | $59,699 |
| Village Health Partnership | $19,456 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $13M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Medical/Sundry
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
CURE INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +69%- HFHope Foundation for Women Child of Bangladesh Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +62% · 42% of their budget
DIRECT RELIEF4× · 2017–2020 · $319k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- BTBE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2020 · $374k · revenue -60%
- ATADVANCING THE GOSPEL IN ANGOLA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $185k · revenue +65% · 32% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2020 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide free medical assistance to poor people in 3rd world countries
Hope health action, inc. seeks to bring hope, health and action to the world's poorest and believe every person has the right to quality health-care without discrimination.
Reduce maternal mortality in low resource areas through education and healthcare infrastructure. Each program is a specific partnership with community led projects to improve quality of health care service delivery, improve systems and…
We serve needy families in Mali who find themselves in medical crisis. Since our founding in 2008, we have helped hundreds of patients access life saving medical care, by paying for medicines, medical tests, and surgeries. We treat complex…
To develope a ministry using the earthly work of Jesus Christ as a model and thereby seek the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of individuals in communities, esecially in developing countries by providing humanitarian…
To improve maternal child healthcare in Ethiopia and eliminate preventable childbirth injuries including obstetric fistula
Medical care and education to under-served communities around the world.
Support and Research Major Problems in Child Health Globally
The Mission of the Chikondi Health foundation is to glorify God and His Son Jesus Christ by promoting Spiritual and PhysicalHealth. The organisation administers charitable gifts for educational, Medical, financial, spiritual support for…
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal Africa Usa and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hand Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL AFRICA USA ↗
- Who funds Hope Foundation for Women Child of Bangladesh Inc ↗
- Who funds BE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Maternal Help Hope Fund ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING THE GOSPEL IN ANGOLA INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HAND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Fistula Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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