Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP
THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $714,849 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($90,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $715k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship does
Mission
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (asf) is preparing the next generation of professionals to serve and empower vulnerable people to live healthier lives and create healthier communities, and to become, thereby, a global corps of change-agent leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
U.s. Schweitzer fellows programs through 13 local programs across the u.s., over 200 u.s. Schweitzer fellows each year are selected and supported in closely-mentored year-long direct service projects addressing important unmet health-related needs in their local communities, together with leadership development and peer support programming that enhance their commitment to, and skills in, lifelong service to marginalized, vulnerable, and underserved individuals and communities, and deepen their understanding of the underlying social, political and moral determinants of health. Collectively, these schweitzer fellows annually provide approximately 40,000 hours of service that supports approximately 20,000 people live healthier lives. Through its albert schweitzer "fellows for life" programs: asf supports a network of approximately 4,000 graduates of its entry-year schweitzer fellows programs, providing ongoing education, leadership development, peer support, and mentoring.
$40,987 spentof which $11,000 as grants$24,724 earned by the program100% of program spendingAlbert schweitzer hospital in lambarene, gabon: starting in 1979, asf's lambarene schweitzer fellows program selected and supported four medical students each year in providing medical care to patients at the hospital and surrounding villages. In 2007, asf expanded the program to include public health students to help the hospital strengthen its prevention and public health outreach programs. In 2023, with the schweitzer hospital in a period of organizational transition, no lambarene schweitzer fellows were selected.
To promote understanding of dr. Schweitzer's philosophy of reverence for life, and its importance in addressing contemporary problems, including issues of individual and community health and well-being, animal welfare, environmental issues such as the climate crisis, and the dangers of nuclear weapons, asf helps ensure that dr. Schweitzer's writings are widely available in english, supports conferences and other events, and oversees and maintains important archives at syracuse university about dr. Schweitzer and the lambarene hospital.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,987.
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 $2.0M to $1.3M (−31%).
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.
22% of THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $243k → $11k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
87% 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 THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 33% · 2019 31% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 51% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
15% of THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $246k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
24% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP?
- THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $714,849 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($90,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $714,849 in grants to THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 23 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