MedGlobal Inc

Overview

Mission

MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and other marginalized communities in crisis-affected and low-resource settings. MedGlobal supports local medical providers and humanitarian partners, builds capacity through critical health training, works with local communities on critical public health responses, deploys healthcare volunteers, and donates medical equipment, medications and supplies. These services provide life-saving and life-sustaining care, based on needs-assessments and best practices, to the most vulnerable around the world.

What it reported doing in 2024

Medglobal has helped build resilience for refugees, IDP, & vulnerable communities in disaster regions, low resource countries and fragile states through partnering with local NGOs, providing training, donating medical technology & supplies and providing direct medical care around the world.- Since August 2017, MedGlobal has supported healthcare and emergency humanitarian responses in countries affected by crises, conflicts, and natural disasters, as well as low-resource settings.- MedGlobal currently supports local healthcare for vulnerable populations in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ecuador, Gaza, Greece, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, the United States, and Yemen. - MedGlobal supports local medical professionals responding to health crises, including a health clinic in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh that has served over 122,000 Rohingya refugees and a health clinic supporting maternal and child care for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia. - MedGlobal facilitates health training and education to build the capacity of local partners and health professionals, with a particular focus on the Helping Babies Breath to reduce neonatal mortality, use of point-of-care ultrasounds, critical care, COVID-19 management, and mental health/ psychological first aid. - MedGlobal has distributed the most critically needed medical equipment, medications, and supplies based on comprehensive needs assessments. MedGlobal regularly supports health responses in Gaza, Syria, Ecuador, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, and Pakistan.- In addition to building local healthcare capacity, MedGlobal has been supported by 455 volunteer nurses, pediatricians, paramedics, OB/GYNs, and medical professionals of all specialties from 26 countries, who have volunteered their skills to provide health services and training to communities around the world. - Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, MedGlobal increased the scope and scale of its medical responses, providing critical supplies and training for the COVID-19 response while continuing to support core health services. In the first six months of the pandemic, MedGlobal responded to COVID-19 outbreaks in 10 countries, provided more than $1.85 million towards the COVID-19 response globally, donated over 982,000 items of personal protective equipment (PPE) and over 37,000 critical medical supplies, trained 393 healthcare workers in COVID-19 management, and reached more than 1.75 million people.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822517347
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Headquarters
Chicago Ridge, IL, USA
Phone
7089356723
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.8%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $19.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 27.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 40.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.8% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.