Friends Without a Border
Overview
Mission
Friends without a border fwab was established in 1996 with the belief that every child has the right to a healthy and loving life. Fwab accomplishes this by providing free, compassionate medical care to children in southeast asia, by creating health education programs, and by training local health care professionals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lao friends hospital for children lfhc opened on february 11, 2015 in luang prabang with an outpatient department. In 2016, the hospital opened a neonatal unit, as well as a surgical theater, which greatly expanded the reach of services available to children in laos. The thalassemia and development clinics opened in 2017 to better serve the needs at the outpatient department. The neonatal unit was expanded in 2018 to respond to the growing caseload. Fwab aims to expand lfhcs outreach programs to teach children and families health awareness and disease prevention practices, in addition to home care visits to patients who have chronic diseases or require follow-up care after hospital visits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 99% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133880402
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.78; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $154K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.