Our first full year, in numbers

We received our IRS determination in 2024 and have now filed our first full-year Form 990-EZ, for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2024. We would rather you read it than take our word for anything, and it is public: the filing is mirrored on ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer.

In that year we took in $83,509 in revenue and spent $56,370, closing the year with $54,125 in net assets. Every dollar of revenue came from contributions and grants. We hold no investments, run no fee-charging programs, and sell nothing.

Small on purpose

We are a three-person board and we intend to stay lean. There is no office to rent in the United States and no fundraising staff to pay. Our President and Treasurer take nothing. That is not modesty for its own sake — it is the mechanism by which a gift made in New York turns into antibiotics, sutures and aviary feed in Wazirabad.

One officer is compensated, and we would rather say so here than have you find it in the filing. Nadeem Shehzad, our Secretary, receives an honorarium. He is the co-founder who runs the clinic our grants support, treating birds six days a week. Paying him is not administrative overhead; it is the work itself, and the amount is itemised on the return.

Holding a reserve matters too. A clinic that has to stop admitting birds because a grant arrived late is a clinic that fails at exactly the wrong moment. Carrying net assets into the next year is what lets us commit to our partner in advance rather than in arrears.