The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
131982786
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Phone
6179757574
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,989
Expenses
$77,600
Assets
$1,476,099
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SAMUEL BRADLEY (CHAIR AND PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • TIM LAHEY (SECRETARY)
  • LACHLAN FORROW (BOARD CHAIR EMERTIUS)
  • ERICA PAN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The albert schweitzer fellowship (asf) is preparing the next generation of professionals to serve and empower vulnerable people to live healthier lives and create healthier communities, and to become, thereby, a global corps of change-agent leaders.

What it reported doing in 2024

The albert schweitzer fellowship coordinates the u.s. Schweitzer fellows programs through 10 local sites across the u.s. Each year over 200 u.s. Schweitzer fellows are selected and supported in closely-mentored year-long community-based projects that address important unmet health-related needs and opportunities in their local communities. Fellows also receive leadership development and interdisciplinary peer support programming that enhances their commitment to, and skills in, lifelong service to under-resourced individuals and communities, and deepens their understanding of the underlying social, political and moral determinants of health. Collectively, these us schweitzer fellows annually provide approximately 40,000 hours of community-based engagement and leadership across the us. The albert schweitzer fellowship was founded to support the albert schweitzer hospital in lambarene, gabon starting in 1979. Asfs lambarene schweitzer fellows (four medical students) were selected and supported each year to provide medical care to patients at the hospital. The hospital is now in a period of organizational transition, so no lambarene schweitzer fellows were selected this year. The schweitzer fellowship aims to promote understanding of dr. Schweitzers philosophy of reverence for life, and its importance in addressing contemporary problems, including issues of individual and community health and well-being, animal welfare, environmental issues such as the climate crisis and the dangers of nuclear weapons. Asf historically had a programmatic goal to ensure that dr. Schweizers writings are widely available in english, support conferences and other events, and oversee and maintains important archives at syracuse university about dr. Schweitzer and the lambarene hospital.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 15
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.5%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 24
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 19.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.02; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.5% of revenue deployed · 24.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.