Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Sickle Gene International Foundation does
Mission
The mission is to reduce sickle cell disease-associated mortality and morbidity; and improve the lives of people living with sickle cell disease in Sub-Saharan Africa through: Providing screening to identify those with sickle cell disease as early in life as possible, Providing disease-modifying medications and state-of-the-art interventions to decrease suffering and disabling complications, and Promoting culturally appropriate psychosocial support to improve quality of life
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In November 2025, Sickle Gene International Foundation (SGIF) organized and hosted a fact-finding conference and meetings in Ghana, West Africa to establish the state of sickle cell screening and care. In May 2025, SGIF participated in a global conference on sickle cell in Abuja, Nigeria. SGIF made two small grants to assist other organizations.
$40,729 spentof which $2,605 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,729.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kofi Boateng
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Jacqueline Owusu McKenzie
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SICKLE GENE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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