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We take our role as financial stewards seriously. We strive to meet the highest financial and operational standards. Here, on this page, we provide to you our Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau evaluations, our accountability standards and financial reports — our tax returns, audited financial statements and annual reports. We also encourage you to review our 2011 grantee information and key partnerships information. The Fistula Foundation operates with transparency. For this reason, we want all of this available to you at anytime here on our website.

We want it to be easy for you to get answers to your questions. If you still have a question about our finances, what we fund and how this is helping, you are likely to find the answers on our Financial FAQs page.

We also want you to know that we're always available to you. If you have a question still left unanswered, simply get in touch. Call us toll free at 866-756-3700 (408-249-9596 outside the US) Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific time.

Charity Navigator:

For the sixth consecutive year, Charity Navigator, America's largest independent charity evaluator awarded us a four-star rating for far exceeding industry standards — ranking us as one of the top 3% of all U.S. charities.

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Better Business Bureau:

The Fistula Foundation is proud to have qualified to use the Better Business Bureau's seal for meeting all twenty of the BBB Standards for Charity Accountability.

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GreatNonprofits, America's largest provider of stakeholder reviews of U.S. charities, designated the Fistula Foundation a 2011 top-rated women's empowerment charity. This site features reviews by people such as donors, volunteers and Board leaders to share their personal perspectives about our charity, including our effectiveness.

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In addition, GreatNonprofits chose to feature us in their press announcement. With nearly 200 U.S. charities they could have chosen to feature, they picked us. We were thrilled. To read the press announcement which features a personal quote from Fistula Foundation Chief Executive Officer, Kate Grant.

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Accountability:

The Foundation Staff and Board work together to ensure that the organization's operations are conducted efficiently and ethically.  In order to do so, the Foundation uses the following practices to ensure accountability:

1. Independent Audit:  The Foundation Board has an audit committee, that contains Director Members and a non-Director who is an accounting expert. The Committee retains and meets with an independent public accounting firm who undertake the Foundation's annual audit.

2. Board Oversight and Governance:  The Foundation's annual operating budget is reviewed in detail by the Board's Finance and Investment Committee. Then the budget is reviewed and approved by its 11-member Board. The Board contains a group of talented individuals who are leaders in their chosen fields. The Board contains two physicians, two attorneys, four existing or former non-profit leaders and three experts in finance and accounting.

3. Employee Compensation:  Fistula Foundation staff compensation is determined each year after a rigorous review of a major nonprofit survey conducted amongst more than 15,000 nonprofit employees in nine counties in northern California. The Chief Executive Officer's performance is reviewed twice a year by the Board of Director's Executive Committee.

4. Transparency: The Foundation makes its audited financial statements and annual tax returns, the so-called 990, available on our website. For those without internet access, the Foundation will send copies of these documents to anyone requesting them.

Financial Accountability

We take our role as financial stewards seriously. We strive to meet the highest financial and operational standards. And we also operate with transparency. Our tax returns, audited financial statements and annual reports are all available to you at anytime here on our website.

Our Tax ID Number The Fistula Foundation is a 501(c)(3) corporation qualified by IRS Determination Letter #17053341014040. Our EIN (tax ID) number is 77-0547201

Reports & Returns

Important financial information about the Fistula Foundation can be found in our annual tax return, called the Form 990. You can view all of our tax returns since 2000 below in our Tax Returns section.

Print copies of the Fistula Foundation's most recent tax return are available upon request. Requests for a print copy should be directed to our executive office at (866) 756-3700 or info@fistulafoundation.org.

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Annual Tax Returns

The Fistula Foundation files a tax return every year called the Form 990. Below you will find downloadable versions of the Fistula Foundation's tax returns since 2001.

For more information, refer to the IRS publication, How to Read the IRS Form 990 & Find Out What it Means.

Form 990 - 2010 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2009 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2008 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2007 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2006 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2005 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2004 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2003 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2002 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2001 [PDF]
Form 990 - 2000 [PDF]

Note: The former name of the Fistula Foundation (from 2001-2004) was American Friends Foundation for Childbirth Injuries.

Annual Reports

Below you will find downloadable versions of the Fistula Foundation's Annual Reports.

Annual Report – 2010 [PDF]
Annual Report – 2009 [PDF]
Annual Report – 2007 [PDF]
Annual Report – 2006 [PDF]
Annual Report – 2005 [PDF]

Audited Financial Reports

Below you will find downloadable versions of the Fistula Foundation's Financial Reports.

Audited Financial Statement - 2010 [PDF]
Audited Financial Statement - 2009 [PDF]
Audited Financial Statement - 2008 [PDF]
Audited Financial Statement - 2007 [PDF]
Audited Financial Statement - 2006 [PDF]
Audited Financial Statement - 2005 [PDF]
Audited Financial Statement - 2004 [PDF]