New York · Nonprofit
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC (New York) receives grants from 6436 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,053,165 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($262,173,534). 4219 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $777M
- Funders on record
- 6,436
- Grants received
- $1.1B
- Net assets
- $264M
What Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc does
Mission
To provide independent medical humanitarian emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters and exclusion from health care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency and medical programs - in 2024, doctors without borders/medecins sans frontieres (msf) provided emergency medical care to millions of people caught in crises in more than 70 countries around the world. Msf usa provided grants to support programs in over 60 of those countries. Msf usa funding supports those programs, providing assistance when catastrophic events - such as armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, or natural disasters - overwhelm local health systems. Msf usa grants also support comprehensive, and in some cases long-standing, treatment programs for people living with a host of neglected diseases. Programs funded by msf usa also assist people who face exclusion or neglect from their local health systems. For a detailed description of msf usa and worldwide accomplishments, please visit our website at: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/who-we-are/finances-reporting-accountability
$637,007,277 spentof which $616,057,744 as grants$5,460,440 earned by the program98% of program spendingMsf-usa engages in the recruitment and placement of medical and other professionals from the united states to work on various medical humanitarian emergency programs. Msf-usa employed 187 medical staff and other professionals on a total of 262 international assignments in 31 countries in 2024.
$5,666,043 spent$5,736,582 earned by the program1% of program spendingCommunications - bearing witness to humanitarian needs and speaking out for the health and wellbeing of our patients are central to msf's founding principles. These activities aim to improve conditions for people caught in crisis or facing barriers to health care. Through its communications, msf usa helps raise awareness about medical and humanitarian emergencies around the world. The organization's reporting draws public attention to situations of extreme violence, abuse, or neglect. Msf demands equitable access to medical care and to essential medicines, vaccines, and other health products. Msf's reporting is grounded in the direct experiences of staff and patients. The organization shares news and stories through print and digital channels, including the website and social media.msf usa seeks to expand its reach through the news media, including by conducting interviews, holdng press briefings, and publishing opinion columns. The organization also produces live events and online discussion programs about humanitarian issues in order to inform and engage with the public.
$4,210,981 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $646,884,301.
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 2019 to 2020, from $269M to $392M (+45%).
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.
97% of MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (98% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Avril Benoit
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1752 funders to 3081 funders, grant income rose $48M → $165M.
351 of 6436 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Goldberg Family Foundation 217-48576810); $3k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Bechtolt Private Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 6436 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
72% 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 26% · 2019 33% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% — 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
78% of MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
70% of MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC'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 $317M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 51 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $722M arriving through sponsors registered in 43 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC has grown faster than half of the 97 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 97 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC?
- MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC (New York) receives grants from 6436 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,053,165 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($262,173,534). 4219 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 6436 organizations giving $1,059,053,165 in grants to MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC, 4219 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $262,173,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6436 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