Oregon · Nonprofit
ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS
ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,993 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($128,167). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $513k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $535k
- Net assets
- $-68617
What Acupuncturists Without Borders does
Mission
Acupuncturists Without Borders AWB provides immediate long-term disaster relief and recovery to communities impacted by disasters or human conflict. AWB utilizes trauma-informed care therapies such as acupuncture provided by full-trained licensed practitioners to reduce pain stress and trauma in impacted communities. AWB is committed to creating alliances with local community-based organizations and treating all who have been affected survivors first responders emergency personnel and other care providers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
This program trains acupuncturists nationally and internationally to provide trauma treatment services to survivors of natural and human disasters Trained approximately 500 acupuncturists in the United States and internationally in trauma recovery and field protocols preparedmentored them to launch disaster recovery efforts and trained them to establish trauma-informed care service projects in their communities Supported field training for ten local midwives in Mexico to learn trauma reduction treatment methodologies Provided online and in person trainings Amsterdam NL on integrative medicine and trauma-informed care to health care practitioners throughout the European Union and United Kingdom who are working with refugees and displaced people from Ukraine the Middle East and Africa Provided live webinars on topics of interest for acupuncturists and other health professionals that provide trauma-informed care in vulnerable communities in the US and internationallyAWB Trauma-Informed Care Training - This program trains acupuncturists and other qualified health practitioners nationally and internationally to provide trauma treatment services to survivors of natural and human-created…
$115,606 spent$81,003 earned by the program66% of program spending4b International Community Clinics - This program supports the development of local community service clinics internationally that provide ongoing trauma treatments to vulnerable populations impacted by traumatic events. Supported four mobile community service clinics in Haiti for citizens continuing to suffer pain and trauma after the devastating earthquake in 2010 and recent social unrest; supported a mobile clinic team that provides trauma informed care treatments for refugee families in Athens Greece and surrounding areas; supported an integrative health clinic pharmacy for asylum seekers in Tijuana Mexico; supported ongoing mobile clinics in the EU UK for refugees displaced by conflicts and disasters in Ukraine the Middle East and Africa; and supported ongoing mobile clinics for communities in Israel and the West Bank Palestine.
$35,746 spent$28,500 earned by the program20% of program spendingCommunity Service Clinics: This program provides free ear acupuncture treatments for populations affected by traumatic events including refugees elders the homeless and sexual violence survivors. * AWB currently supports 30 community service clinics for various populations including refugees economically challenged people and at-risk youth; all staffed and coordinated by volunteers.
$24,455 spent$24,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $175,807.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $228k to $99k (−57%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 9% · 2023 18% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Christine Cronin
Exec Dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $88k → $72k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 98% · 2019 49% · 2020 35% · 2021 58% · 2022 39% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $262k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $273k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS?
- ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,993 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($128,167). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $534,993 in grants to ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $128,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing