The Fistula Foundation

Analysis

The Fistula Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Jose, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Fistula Foundation reported income of $29.3m and spending of $22.9m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $12.1m to $29.3m (+142%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Fistula Foundation sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pace of Guilford & Rockingham Counties Inc ($29.2m), Methodist Healthcare Community Care Association ($29.3m) and Cerebral Palsy of Westchester Inc ($29.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $350k (1.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $39.6m against liabilities of $13.0m, net assets of $26.6m. It reported 24 employees.