Connecticut · Nonprofit
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1075 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,605,379 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,657,385). 626 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9B
- Funders on record
- 1,075
- Grants received
- $192M
- Net assets
- $341M
What Americares Foundation Inc does
Mission
Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Access to medicine to improve health outcomes for patients and communities, americares increases accessibility, availability, affordability and acceptability of medicine and supplies for partner health providers. In a medicine secure community, every clinic, health worker and patient has reliable, equitable access to medicines and medical supplies. A strong network of pharmaceutical and medical supply corporations donates these medicines, medical supplies, personal care products, medical equipment and technology. We distribute these donations to our global partner network through two initiatives: 1. The global access to medicine program, which distributes high-quality medicines directly to a network of partners, reaching 34 countries in fy25. Partners are selected for their capacity to securely and effectively process and utilize americares medical and supply donations. Americares also supports volunteer medical teams as they provide primary care, perform surgeries, respond to health emergencies and strengthen local health care capacity in communities where basic medical care is often non-existent or inaccessible. Last year americares provided these teams with $63 million in…
$1,763,673,007 spentof which $1,732,559,775 as grants95% of program spendingEmergency programs americares responds to disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide, establishes long-term recovery projects and brings preparedness programs to communities vulnerable to disasters. Americares maintains a constant state of readiness, so we can deploy quickly when disaster strikes. Our relief workers are among the first to respond to emergencies, helping to restore health services for survivors. After disasters, we often stay for months - or years - helping communities recover. From july 2024 to june 2025, americares responded to 30 natural disasters and humanitarian crises in 22 countries, including the united states, with technical assistance, shipments of medicines and emergency supplies as well as preparedness, response and recovery projects. Across all emergencies in fy25, americares emergency programs delivered $50.5 million in emergency and disaster aid, including shipments of medicines and relief supplies. In emergency settings, americares provided grants and support for 157 projects, which directly benefited more than 680,000 people. Americares emergency programs rely on the close partnerships we share with our broad network of health care providers. By…
$50,540,146 spentof which $15,716,765 as grants3% of program spendingClinical services and community health americares delivers and supports quality health services at americares-run clinics and partners with local health centers to address the unique health needs of their communities, focusing on the root causes of illness and disease. Through work in our own clinics and that of our partners, americares provided more than $47.8 million through our clinical services and community health services work. To strengthen health systems and improve health equity, americares focuses our health projects in the areas of climate change and disaster resilience; infectious disease; mental health; reproductive, maternal and children's health; and safe water, sanitation and hygiene (wash). In fiscal year 2025, americares clinic in el salvador, clinica integral de atencion familiar, provided 82,788 clinical consultations. Our clinics in colombia provided 27,609 patient consultations. In addition, our partners americares india and americares free clinics, in connecticut, provided an additional 281, 680 clinical consultations. In fy25, americares supported nearly 37,300 surgeries performed by u.s.-based medical volunteers on 680 short-term medical outreach trips to…
$47,812,460 spentof which $8,447,974 as grants$1,989,833 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,862,025,613.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $608M to $327M (−46%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 Squires
President/CEO
Board chair
Susan Grossman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 317 funders to 391 funders, grant income rose $9.9M → $25M.
107 of 1075 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1075 funders by total. 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
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 16 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 16 funders to its left
54% 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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 13% · 2020 11% · 2021 10% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% — 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
42% of AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 47 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85M arriving through sponsors registered in 30 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
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 317 funders to 391 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59.9M on record.
- Agency for International Development$37.2M
- Department of State$18.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Americares Free Clinics Inc · exempt
- Americares Foundation Tanzania · exempt
- Americares Limited · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC?
- AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1075 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,605,379 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,657,385). 626 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1075 organizations giving $191,605,379 in grants to AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC, 626 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,657,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1075 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing