Illinois · Nonprofit
WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND
WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,445,920 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,160,226). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $818k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Worldwide Fistula Fund does
Mission
Worldwide Fistula Fund protects and restores the health and dignity of the world's most vulnerable women by preventing and treating devastating childbirth injuries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Since 2010, wff has strategically partnered to develop a ugandan ngo from a regional to a national program providing surgical treatment, reintegration/vocational skills training and community health advocacy training. Wff supported the launch of the reintegration center in soroti, uganda, in 2013 to provide counseling, literacy education, and entrepreneurial skills training for women with childbirth injuries, as well as training for community-based advocates to provide prevention education, treatment referrals and survivor support network programs. Our partner opened a new hospital in 2019 where surgeries and reintegration services are under one roof. Wff has supported 1,734 surgeries, reintegration training for 1,526 women and reached 840,000 community members with prevention and free treatment messaging.
$221,259 spentof which $145,700 as grants28% of program spendingWffs figo certified fistula surgeon and trainer launched arena in 2017 and began providing fistula services. Initially, working through shared clinical space, expert fistula repair was completed and followed by prevention and education in the ward. The new arena medical center opened in november 2021 with survivor reintegration training (injury prevention, income generating activities) and midwife training. In june 2022, the center began offering surgeries. Arena conducts outreach into the community to educate health professionals and community members in treatment availability and prevention. Arena employs regional ambassadors to advocate for safe childbirth and conduct patient outreach. They began to organize survivors in solidarity groups for mutual benefit. To date, burkina faso has provided 484 women with free fistula surgeries, 451 women received reintegration training, 593 doctors and medical professionals received training, and reached over 532,000 community members with prevention and free treatment messaging.
$210,212 spentof which $120,000 as grants27% of program spendingWorldwide Fistula Fund (wff) opened danja fistula center (dfc) in danja, niger, in 2012 offering free fistula repair surgery, rehabilitation, and a reintegration/vocational skills program. Worldwide, fistula fund supports training for their surgeon to become a certified expert in fistula surgery. All patients have the opportunity to learn vocational skills they can use to generate income, build self-confidence, and help them reintegrate into their communities. To date, dfc has provided 2,063 surgeries, 989 women have received reintegration training, 300 local health workers have been trained, and 90,000 community members have received prevention and free treatment education.
$202,885 spentof which $99,000 as grants26% of program spendingProgram in kenya - after providing over 1,000 free fistula surgeries, our kenyan partner supports economic empowerment and reintegration services to survivors and community members through solidarity groups. These groups promote individual and group income-generating activities (igas) for economic independence and security. To date, 534 solidarity group members have launched 1,136 individual and group small businesses and reached 411,973 community members have received prevention and free treatment education.
$154,440 spentof which $101,700 as grants20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $788,796.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.9M (+46%).
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.
100% of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Mary Rose Keller Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $445k → $555k.
12 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
80% 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 WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 41% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% — 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
51% of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND'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
80% of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5.4M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND: 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 WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND?
- WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,445,920 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,160,226). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $5,445,920 in grants to WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,160,226 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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