Nonprofit · EIN 30-0139210
WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC
Tax-exempt · SAINT LOUIS, MO 63156
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $818,292 | $1,030,367 | -$212,075 | $2,413,097 | $127,467 | $2,285,630 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $985,975 | $1,164,786 | -$178,811 | $2,612,526 | $121,897 | $2,490,629 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $815,284
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $208
- Other revenue
- $2,800
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $466,400
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $0
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $0
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Travel
- $13,644
- Depreciation
- $39,352
- Program services (functional)
- $788,796
- Management and general (functional)
- $114,754
- Fundraising (functional)
- $126,817
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $2,612,526
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,413,097
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $127,467
- Net assets, end of year
- $2,285,630
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $1,031,174
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $1,338,807
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $946,823
- Gross receipts
- $818,292
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 13
- Year formed
- 1995
- State of legal domicile
- IL
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARY ROSE KELLER PHD | CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 6 | $0 |
| KATHLEEN DAVIS MD | VICE CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 |
| Holly E Richter PhD MD | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 |
| Julianna DAngelo CPA | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 |
| Melissa Fleming | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Misti McDowell | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Christina Machaby Lee PT DPT | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Joyce McIntyre RN CWOCN | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Lynn Nye PhD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Theresa Monaco SpitznaGLE | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Phillip McCreary | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Eugenia Chidembo | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Lewis L Wall | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Liz Crawford | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 18 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARY ROSE KELLER PHD | CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 6 | $0 |
| KATHLEEN DAVIS MD | VICE CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 |
| Holly E Richter PhD MD | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 |
| Julianna DAngelo CPA | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 4 | $0 |
| Diane Gregerson Bowe MSW | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Melissa Fleming | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Patrick Guilbaud PhD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Misti McDowell | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Christina Machaby Lee PT DPT | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Misti McDowell MPA | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Joyce McIntyre RN CWOCN | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Nancy Muller PhD MBA | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Lynn Nye PhD | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Theresa Monaco SpitznaGLE | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Brown | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Mulegeta Gebregziabher | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Lewis Wall | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| SOJA ORLOWSKI | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- PO BOX 23329, SAINT LOUIS, MO 63156-3329
- In care of
- % THERESA M SPITZNAGLE
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- MARY ROSE KELLER PHD, 1933 NORTH MEACHAM ROAD 450, SCHAUMBURG, IL 60173
- Signed the 990
- MARY ROSE KELLER PHD, CHAIR
- Phone
- (847) 592-2438
- Website
- WWW.WORLDWIDEFISTULAFUND.ORG
- Return prepared by
- IL NFP AUDIT AND TAX LLP
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.
Program accomplishments
- 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.Expenses $221,259 · grants $145,700
- WFFS 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.Expenses $210,212 · grants $120,000
- WORLDWIDE 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.Expenses $202,885 · grants $99,000
- PROGRAM 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.Expenses $154,440 · grants $101,700
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 30-0139210
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2003
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Voluntary health associations and medical disciplines (G99)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $2,413,097
- Income (IRS master file)
- $818,292
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $818,292 | $1,030,367 | $2,413,097 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $985,975 | $1,164,786 | $2,612,526 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $887,821 | $1,150,050 | $2,811,336 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2017 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 30-0139210).
Questions about WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC
- What is the EIN of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC is 30-0139210.
- Is WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2003.
- Are donations to WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names MARY ROSE KELLER PHD.
- Who are the officers and directors of WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 14 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
- How much revenue does WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $818,292, expenses of $1,030,367 and total assets of $2,413,097 at year end.
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