Phages for Global Health
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811720247
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6508885522
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,011
- Expenses
- $105,893
- Assets
- $215,097
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tobi Elaine Nagel (President)
People named in this filing
- Tobi Elaine Nagel (President)
- James Barnabas Lin (Secretary)
- Karen Erickson (Treasurer)
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
Facilitating phage research in lower- and middle-income countries to combat antibiotic resistance
What it reported doing in 2025
Regulatory Considerations for Phages: collated information from drug regulatory agencies in the US, Europe and Australia and shared that with national leaders in Africa and Asia
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.8%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 37.5%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.1%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.8% of revenue deployed · 37.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.