SONA Global Limited
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882394599
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 2405064472
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Biomedicine, Bioengineering Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,394
- Expenses
- $47,032
- Assets
- $99,106
- 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
- Kiran J Agarwal Harding (President)
People named in this filing
- Kiran J Agarwal Harding (President)
- Ravi Pamnani (Member, VP Strategy)
- Andrew Deagon (Member, VP Engineering)
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
The organization's exempt purpose is to improve access to essential trauma and orthopaedic care for poor and vulnerable populations in underserved and resource-limited settings. It advances this mission by supporting healthcare providers and health systems through the development and charitable distribution of affordable medical technologies; providing clinical training and capacity-building programs; and disseminating multilingual educational resources to strengthen the quality and availability of life-saving and disability-preventing care. The organization works in partnership with hospitals, clinicians, and public health institutions to expand access to appropriate treatment for patients who would otherwise lack such care.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization conducted in-person and hybrid capacity-building initiatives, including surgical training workshops and collaborative research programs. An open fracture management course in Rwanda provided hands-on skills training to surgeons and trainees, and the Mzuzu Orthopaedic Support & Training (MOST) Program in Malawi supported clinical care delivery alongside local providers, including performance of 76 complex surgical procedures and daily educational sessions. Research initiatives included collaborative clinical studies and programs designed to build investigative capacity in underserved settings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.4%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
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: 53.6%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.4% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.