Standing Straight
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463246105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Orinda, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9259221677
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $190,241
- Expenses
- $102,574
- Assets
- $360,814
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ravinder Bains MD (CEO, Chief Spine Mission Surgeon)
- Kanwaljit Gill MD (Vice President, Chief Orthopedic Lead Surgeon)
People named in this filing
- Ravinder Bains MD (CEO, Chief Spine Mission Surgeon)
- Kanwaljit Gill MD (Vice President, Chief Orthopedic Lead Surgeon)
- Gina Turner PMB (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide spine deformity surgical and medical services to extremely deformed impoverished children in areas without access to medical care and to train the local medical and surgical staff in these regions for early diagnosis and unnecessary severe deformities and death in young adults.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 the organization was able to successfully complete 2 in person medical mission. More than 30 highly skilled surgical and medical staff volunteered and provided their expertise. The mission's accomplishment included 19 extremely complex lifesaving spine surgeries for a group of extremely impoverished children with no other access to medical care. The service saved a few children from paralysis, gave a child a chance to get out of a wheelchair and walk, relieved all children from severe daily pains and difficulty in taking care of their basic necessities. After the surgical care all children were able to get up, stand straight, and most are either back to or getting ready to get back to school. The surgeries of the children also freed more than 50 family members from daily and routine care giving duties for the patients and has enabled them to get more rest and have more time to earn money to assist with their extreme impoverished living conditions. Other services delivered by the organization was online screening of MRI and X-ray of patients who needed emergency care and virtually assisted and guided local surgeons to save a child from paralysis and allowed our team of surgeons to plan and arrive at the best plan of action before arrival at the service delivery site which saved a lot of planning time and allowed maximum time for the volunteers to give the medical care and recovery services. All these services were provided by extremely skilled US Surgeons for Free.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
STRONG - 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: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.1%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
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: 46.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.52; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 55.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.1% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.