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GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH

GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,930 to it, the largest being Eagle Foundation ($700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$751k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$640k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Global Spine Outreach does

Mission

Global spinal outreach (gso) transforms the lives of patients with complex spinal deformities around the world, and helps medical teams learn advanced spinal techniques.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide life-transforming spine surgeries around the world for patients in need. Train local spine surgeons the advanced techniques and safety protocols to perform the surgeries themselves. Collect information to study complex spinal problems in various medical systems.

    $550,721 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $550,721.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($396k) Expenses 100 ($183k) Net assets 100 ($579k)2021 Revenue 1404 ($5.6M) Expenses 2997 ($5.5M) Net assets 116 ($670k)2022 Revenue 553 ($2.2M) Expenses 1116 ($2.0M) Net assets 142 ($824k)2023 Revenue 196 ($777k) Expenses 510 ($931k) Net assets 116 ($670k)2024 Revenue 189 ($751k) Expenses 427 ($780k) Net assets 111 ($640k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (189)Expenses (427)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $670k to $825k (+23%).

$579k
$670k
$825k
$679k
$641k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

113% of GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$214k
’20
$91k
’21
$154k
’22
−$154k
’23
−$29k
’24
6.1
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed10101099
Joined·+0+2+1+0
No longer listed·0220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $131k → $45k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH’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

GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 91% · 2022 61% · 2023 77% — broadly stable.

“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

50% of GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.

NY
CA
NE
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH is better cushioned than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 24%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

30%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH: 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 GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH?
GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,930 to it, the largest being Eagle Foundation ($700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,216,930 in grants to GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH?
Eagle Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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