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Charity Ratings

 

Rating organizations consistently award Fistula Foundation top honors for efficiency, impact, and innovation.

Charity Navigator

Fistula Foundation has earned a four star rating since 2006.

Charity Navigator rates charities on a four star-scale. A charity that receives four stars exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in its cause.

Charity Navigator rates charities by evaluating and calculating beacon scores in the following categories: Accountability & Finance, Culture & Community, Impact & Results, and Leadership & Adaptability.

CharityWatch

Fistula Foundation has earned an ‘A’ grade and is one of only 34 charities listed as Top Rated International Organizations by CharityWatch.

Of approximately 600 charities currently rated by CharityWatch, only a select number qualify as Top-Rated Charities based on their rigorous analysis.

CharityWatch is a nationally prominent charity rating and evaluation service dedicated to helping donors make informed giving decision. The New York Times has hailed them as the “pit bull of watchdogs.”

The Life You Can Save

Fistula Foundation occupies a spot on a small list of organizations recommended by the Life You Can Save.

The Life You Can Save maintains a list of charities that it believes provide the greatest good for funds spent. Along with placing Fistula Foundation on that list, The Life You Can Save supports our organization through its Transform Lives Fund and its Help Women & Girls Fund.

The Life You Can Save is part of a movement known as Effective Altruism. Founded by the Princeton University ethicist Peter Singer, this movement takes an evidence-based approach to maximizing the good that donors can achieve through their charitable donations.

Great Nonprofits

Fistula Foundation is proud to be a Top-Rated Charity on Great Nonprofits.

Nonprofits that receive a high volume of new, positive reviews are added to Great Nonprofits’ Top-Rated Charities list. The list is updated on a yearly basis, with charities needing to meet the qualifying review guidelines each year in order to be included.

The ratings found on the site are user based, allowing people who have had good and bad experiences with nonprofits to share their stories and give their ratings. Great Nonprofits carries more than 170,000 reviews for over 1.8 million nonprofits on their website.

GuideStar by Candid

Fistula Foundation is proud to be a Platinum-level GuideStar Participant. Platinum status is the highest level of recognition given to charities by GuideStar.

To receive a Platinum Seal, a charity must provide information at an advanced level about its impact, effectiveness, and financial performance.

GuideStar (now part of Candid) is an information service that reports on nonprofit companies in the United States. Its database contains detailed profiles of more than two million organizations. 

Fast Company

Fistula Foundation was recognized as a 2024 World Changing Ideas Honoree by Fast Company. Only about one-tenth of organizations on the World Changing Ideas list are nonprofits.

 

World Changing Ideas is an annual awards program that “[seeks] to elevate finished products and bold concepts that make the world better.” Fast Company bestows these awards in a wide range of categories, including health, education, energy, and artificial intelligence.

The magazine recognized the Foundation within a category called “Small and Mighty” for our In It to End It vision—a vision to bring the suffering caused by fistula to an end in all countries where it persists today.