Global Midwife Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272924419
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Livingston, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062222922
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Reproductive Health Care Facilities and Allied Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $128,308
- Expenses
- $139,967
- Assets
- $241,818
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GENEVIEVE REID (PRESIDENT/TR)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH HINTON (EXECUTIVE DI): $18,750 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Global midwife education foundation's mission is to reduce infant mortality and morbidity in rural areas of the developing world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Poverty and lack of medical care in isolated communities contribute to illness, malnutritian, and even death for countless children and their family members. Donations from individuals and foundations allow global midwife education foundation (gmef)to educate birth attendants, train midwives to provide childbirth assistance and newborn care, and provide the necessary medical suppies to birth assistants in rural areas of the developing world. Birth control is also offered to those who desire it in these communities.all of the training programs that gmef uses are evidence-based medical recommendations of the world health organization. Total expenditures on birth assistance were approximatley 35,000 in 2025. Gmef also has water and bathroom projects to provide access to clean water and sanitation to those who would otherwise not have it. This helps to prevent severe, sometimes fatal, illnesses that come from no sanitation and contaminated water. The communities are then responsible for maintaining these water and sanitation stations, making them sustainable. Total expenditures on these projects in 2025 were approximatley 33,500.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $19K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.