Virginia · Nonprofit
Physicians For Peace
Physicians For Peace (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,739,410 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($438,900). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $500k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $198k
What Physicians For Peace does
Mission
Physicians For Peace trains providers of surgial care to strengthen healthcare systems in the world's most fragile places.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the tax year, the Board of Directors voted to cease all normal fundraising programs and operations due to a wind-down of the organization.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
During the tax year, the Board of Directors voted to cease all normal fundraising programs and operations due to a wind-down of the organization. In accordance with our dissolution procedures and organizational bylaws, Physicians for Peace distributed its remaining cash assets totaling $50,918 to Resurge International, an eligible Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity.
$50,918 spentof which $50,918 as grants42% of program spendingIn keeping with a decade of support for surgical education and training at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre, Malawi, Physicians for Peace offers a scholarship opportunity to trainees in either general surgery or anaesthesia who will contribute to expansion of the country's surgical capacity and medical leadership.
$22,380 spentof which $22,380 as grants18% of program spendingThe burn surgery program implemented by Physicians For Peace exists to provide essential skills and training that contributes to greater access to quality healthcare in under-resourced areas of the world. Because burns are lifetime injuries, requiring dedicated medical care for years after the initial injury, pfp international medical educators (imes) provide training and mentorship to an array of healthcare providers, including surgeons, nurses, therapists and psychologists, who care for patients with burn injuries at different stages of their recovery.
$2,395 spentof which $2,395 as grants2% of program spending(Expenses $ 45,084 including grants of $)
$45,084 spent37% of program spendingPhysicians for Peace is committed to improving access to safe, timely surgical care by educating and training Malawian surgeons, clinical officers, surgical registrars and allied health providers to increase the country's surgical capacity, quality and resilience. Together with Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital staff and collaborators, Physicians for Peace is striving to bolster surgical training and education so that Malawi's surgical workforce can continue to grow and strengthen to better serve the overwhelming patient need.
$1,580 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,357.
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 $2.7M to $2.0M (−25%).
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: 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Physicians For Peace’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Board chair
John T Schulz III MD
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $49k → $287k.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 Physicians For Peace’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
Physicians For Peace has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
67% 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 Physicians For Peace.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 38% — 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
55% of Physicians For Peace's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
67% of Physicians For Peace'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 $581k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Physicians For Peace's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Physicians For Peace
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Physicians For Peace: 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 Physicians For Peace?
- Physicians For Peace (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,739,410 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($438,900). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Physicians For Peace have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,739,410 in grants to Physicians For Peace, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Physicians For Peace?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $438,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Physicians For Peace find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 35 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