2025-11-29T13:54:15-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 571235074 FIELDS OF PROMISE INC FIEL 7855505179 PO Box 6053 Colorado Springs CO 80934 Pamela Zicker Founder/Executive Director 7855505179 2025-11-17 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X www.fieldsofpromise.org X X 92217 X 92036 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 172 92217 58000 0 0 101 0 61 29318 87480 4737 201188 1 205926 201188 205926 0 0 0 0 201188 205926 0 0 201188 205926 Fields of Promise exists to transform the lives of orphans, vulnerable families, the blind, and those impacted by severe poverty through sponsorship, community-based care, sustainable development, education, holistic mentoring, capacity building and veterinary development. Our vision is accomplished through giving campaigns, sponsorship coordination, volunteer service trips, and partnering with like-minded indigenous organizations in Ethiopia. Provided program support for three projects within an NGO partner Operation Rescue in northern Ethiopia to support 60 orphans, 9 staff and their families (approximately 250 beneficiaries) in community based care in Adigrat; 70 blind students in Mekelle; a small care home for 5 orphans in Mekelle; 4 sponsored students in Mekelle ORE. Grants of $45,900 cover expenses per working agreement for student stipends, rent, food, special assistance funds, staff salaries and program expenses. 45900 X 2400 Travel for Volunteer Executive Director to travel in January of 2024, July of 2024 and Dec of 2024 to Tigray region including Mekelle, Adwa and Adigrat Ethiopia to monitor projects. Travel costs included 5 other volunteers whose travel was purchased by FOP and funds raised by volunteers via donations to cover these costs in budget. Volunteers served in capacity building, trainings for staff, trauma healing services for war victims, and delivering needed items from the US. 0 14003 Donated materials to partners in Ethiopia including Imago Dei counseling center and Mekelle Veterinary School as well as Operation Rescue Mekelle and Adwa and Adigrat for capacity building for staff to do their jobs and the children's programming. Electronic equipment such as printers laptops and Chromebooks for staff and university students as well as Kindle readers for children's library were provided as well as clothing and shoes, and recreational equipment was provided for beneficiaries. This amount does not include donated new and used goods also transported by volunteers and distributed. 0 8928 Provided funds for Mental Health Capacity Building Training (40 beneficiaries), Gender Based Sexual Violence Survivor Training (100 beneficiaries) and Trauma Healing Training (80 beneficiaries)in July 2024 which included meals for survivors each day, stipends for women victims, trainer per diem and professional trainer fees in country with EMDR local expert. 0 4200 Provided to Special Family Support Fund which support 6 families (19 total people) living in Mekelle who suffer from the effects of poverty. Grant provides monthly financial support to each family as well as special assistance when needed and salary for social worker who visits and monitors families. 3700 X 0 Enlisted use of social media campaign, website promotion, and mailings to sponsors and donors to increase awareness of humanitarian needs in northern Ethiopia and provide updates on childcare projects and health and wellbeing of children in care. 0 1727 Travel grant donations to mental health volunteers who would travel over in July 2024 to provide EMDR training to professionals in an efforrt to provide trauma relief in the aftermath of the civil war. 200 0 Provided grant of $4,000 to local counseling centre, Imago Dei, for them to provide 100 women victims of rape and sexual violence with training and victim support utilizing training tools provided by FOP. 4000 X 0 31258 Pamela Zicker Co-Founder, Volunteer Executive Director 2 0 0 0 Steven Zicker Co-Founder, Secretary 1 0 0 0 Valerie Smith Board President 1 0 0 0 Julie Lesslie Board Member at Large 1 0 0 0 Mark Woodward Board Member at Large 1 0 0 0 Marta Woodward Board Member at Large 1 0 0 0 Ephraim Bird Board Member at Large 1 0 0 0 Jamie Driggers Board Member at Large 1 0 0 0 Kendra Todd Board Member at Large 1 0 0 0 John Todd Board Member at Large 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CO KS MN OK Pam Zicker PO Box 6053 Colorado Springs CO 80934 7855505179 1 ET 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 68754 101748 56185 63551 92036 382274 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68754 101748 56185 63551 92036 382274 13270 9725 7745 14215 16421 61376 18165 20520 38685 13270 9725 7745 32380 36941 100061 282213 68754 101748 56185 63551 92036 382274 0.73825 0.79654 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Header, Line B realized immediately after filing that i left one figure off program expense so am submitting amended return. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Paypal donation income from 2025 that was erroneously transferred into bank account during 2024 fy. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Cash grants were given in local currency, ETB to local NGO Imago Dei ($4,000) local NGO Operation Rescue Ethiopia ($45,900) and FOP Special Family Support Program ($3,700), Mental Health Outreach Project in Tigray ($4,200) and $200 given for travel grants for volunteer counselors. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^bank charges;1369|office expense paper and storage in google;425|sponsorship maintenance costs;866|Materials donated to Ethiopia and intl shipping cost;8928|promotional expenses and fundraising;1317|Travel expense;14003|Paypal expense to account for 2023 error;10|Local projects in country with ORE beneficiaries;2400^Total;29318^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 adjusted balance by $1.00 since opening balance was $201,188.39, plus gain of $4737.40 which equals end of year balance of $205,925.79, which rounds to $205,926.