Medicine for Humanity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880364635
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Malibu, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104892197
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,066
- Expenses
- $19,053
- Assets
- $143,310
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Tarnay (President)
People named in this filing
- Christopher Tarnay (President)
- Jeffrey Baker (Director)
- Susan Lagasse (Director)
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
Medicine for Humanity is a medical care and teaching organization dedicated to restoring dignity, hope, and quality of life to women in the developing world. Founded in 1995 on the principle that ensuring the health of mothers leads to healthier communities, we provide surgical care and build sustainable programs to train the next generation of doctors. Since 2009, our work has been based in Mbarara, in southwestern Uganda, with a focus on treating obstetric fistula and other pelvic floor disorders resulting from childbirth injuries. An estimated 200,000 Ugandan women suffer from obstetric fistula, which causes chronic incontinence that can lead to infections, kidney disorders, as well as social isolation and stigmatization. Fistula and pelvic floor disorders affect the poorest and most powerless in society and though most can be cured with surgery, a vast gap exists between the number of women needing care and the number of skilled health workers able to provide it. The ultimate goal
What it reported doing in 2025
Dr. James Okello, our third Urogynecology Leadership Fellow, participated in four major urogynecology surgical clinics at regional referral hospitals in Mbarara, Lira, Hoima, and Jinja, providing patient screening, surgical treatment, postoperative follow-up, and gynecologic care for women with complex pelvic floor disorders and fistula-related conditions.Dr. James Okello participated in 332 surgical procedures, serving as lead surgeon in 163 cases and assistant surgeon in 128 cases. Procedures included fistula repairs, hysterectomies, pelvic floor repairs, sphincteroplasty, cervical cancer procedures, ovarian cystectomies, and other gynecologic and obstetric surgeries. In addition to clinical care, he provided medical education and supervision for undergraduate and postgraduate students, conducted routine ward rounds and emergency obstetric care, and supported maternal and neonatal health coordination efforts in the Lango Region.Dr. James Okello also contributed to public health advocacy, research, and community outreach focused on improving maternal and child health outcomes in Uganda. He participated in international maternal health conferences, collaborated with community organizations promoting reproductive health and girls education, and contributed to multiple research projects and publications addressing unsafe abortion, postpartum contraception, HIV prevention, sickle cell newborn screening, and maternal health outcomes.
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
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -72.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.52; rating input score 89; 89th 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: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.