Partners for Medical Relief

What it reported doing in 2024

General program accomplishment: the 2024-2025 year was our 22nd to belize and included multiple teaching trips to teach, resource and equip medical professionals in belize, mostly surgeons. In addition, some 165 volunteers traveled to belize for a week to perform needed medical services of surgery (hernia repair, ent and plastics) and general medical evaluations for adults and children. Over 10, 000 volunteer hours and over two million dollars in services were donated. Our mission has always included building medical capacity, but we have suddenly seen much greater willingness to accept our cross training for their medical staff. It has taken over twenty years to build this trust of our intentions and brand. We had top level meetings with the minister of health of belize and the staff working directly under him to better coordinate cross training for local surgeons and resourcing of missing equipment for local government hospitals. We are organizing other medical teams to also participate more effectively with the government of belize for cross training. We organized five cross training trips to perform surgery side by side in orange walk hospital with local general surgeons and also separately with orthopedic surgeons. We continued working in partnership with global surgical expedition of richmond Virginia to supply surgeons to do cross training on the equipment we partnered with them in the previous year. Training belize surgeons to confidently use the laparoscopic tower donated to belize the previous year. The result has been gratifying to see that the surgeons in belize are using this equipment and skill base to reduce their bed stays and thereby increase their capacity by 100 % for gallbladder surgeries. The country has a backlog of such cases that make each surgery more complicated than if done closer to diagnosis. In addition, one of our board members and surgeons procured at $68,000 stryker drill and saw set as a donation to the orange walk government hospital where a local orthopedic surgeon had no available equipment. This surgeon has made four trips, two this year to perform orthopedic surgery side by side with the belize surgeon who he has mentored for five years. Over 60 medical officers were trained on the latest developments in heart treatment in emergency rooms. We had an amazing november 2025 surgical trip to corozal community hospital to perform ent and plastics surgery with a team of 23 people and our larger teams of 60 each week donated their time to belize with these two consecutive trips at the end of january and the first week of february. These were medical trips in 2025 to corozal community hospital and orange walk's northern regional hospital in belize. The teams also took a medical clinic team to thirteen surrounding area villages which set up in community centers or government clinic spaces for general evaluations for children and adults and no charge pharmaceuticals. This was working with entities both governmental and volunteer and relationship building in belize. This continued our longstanding relationship with the government of belize and its belize ministry of health, as well as all the non- government partners (ngos) and individual volunteers and vendors in belize. We have also proactively engaged with other us ngos that travel to belize to increase effectiveness and coordination for cross training. Some 165 us volunteers joined with72 belize volunteers to accomplish a multitude of tasks. Over 2,800 medical evaluations were delivered along with free pharmaceuticals in rural villages for children or adults. Over 209 surgery procedures were performed in the government hospitals by our ent, plastics and general surgery teams. Surgeries included cleft surgeries and tonsil and deviated septum, as well as hernia repairs and cancerous breast surgery to name a few of the most frequent surgeries. We assisted a high profile case in belize of a domestic violence burn victim with care and resourcing to g

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
• Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
• 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • 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: -6.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings