Catalyst Global
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463226871
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Carlsbad, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2026800629
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,442
- Expenses
- $43,832
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kelly Culwell (President)
People named in this filing
- Jill Sheffield (Director)
- ERICA CHAVIN (Dir of Finance)
- Kelly Culwell (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Catalyst Global (formerly known as WCG Cares) is an international non-profit organization committed to increasing access to innovative, high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health products and services to facilitate the vibrant health, well-being, and future of girls and women. Catalyst Globals credentials in product introduction have made it a preferred partner of organizations looking to move products from laboratories and manufacturing plants to the women who need them. Catalyst Global excels at forming strategic partnerships to introduce and create access to new contraceptive methods around the world. Catalyst Globals quality and regulatory departments are experienced in the global registration of drugs and devices, and in aiding manufacturers to improve their processes to meet international best practices. We create options for women when it comes to their reproductive health - no matter where they live.
What it reported doing in 2025
Catalyst Global Impact:-Catalyst Global has increased access to 16 reproductive health products in over 90 countries, including 4 self-care methods.-In partnership with PSI, Catalyst Global introduced the hormonal IUD to over 4,800 women in Zambia and Madagascar; the Caya Diaphragm to over 2,400 women in Niger and Benin; and the Womans Condom to more than 137,000 women in Malawi and Zambia.-Catalyst Globals regulatory support ensured the continued availability of multiple reproductive health products in multiple countries.-In collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco and Harvard University, Catalyst Global supports one clinical trial for a biotherapeutic gel for HIV prevention.-Catalyst Global supports the Population Councils acceptability study for a multipurpose technology, the dual-prevention pill (contraception and HIV prevention).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.1%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 20
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -48.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.1% of revenue deployed · 19.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.