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← THE ROSTROPOVICH-VISHNEVSKAYA FOUNDATION

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by THE ROSTROPOVICH-VISHNEVSKAYA FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$387,111
Total expenses
$2,272,054
Contributions and grants received
$177,076
Grants paid
$100,073
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$210,035
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$3,288,872
Total liabilities, end of year
$71,956
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,216,916
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,943,565
Management and general expenses
$310,362
Fundraising expenses
$18,127
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,943,565

Program services were 85.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $177,076

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $4,567

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $190,527 · excluded $190,527

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $1,951,724

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $1,932,216

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $19,508

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $19,508 · excluded $19,508

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $100,073 · program services $100,073

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $390,453 · program services $241,019 · management and general $142,687 · fundraising $6,747

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $314,307 · program services $257,824 · management and general $47,868 · fundraising $8,615

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $5,978 · program services $3,928 · management and general $1,764 · fundraising $286

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $37,495 · program services $24,066 · management and general $12,090 · fundraising $1,339

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $40,345 · program services $25,484 · management and general $13,721 · fundraising $1,140

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $30,520 · program services $24,684 · management and general $5,836

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $45,369 · program services $30,393 · management and general $14,976

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $118,434 · program services $118,434

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $73,426 · program services $32,129 · management and general $41,297

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $56,838 · program services $47,290 · management and general $9,548

  • 17 · Travel

    total $38,359 · program services $23,432 · management and general $14,927

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $3,236 · program services $2,730 · management and general $506

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $5,142 · management and general $5,142

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM MATERIALS & SVC

    total $1,012,079 · program services $1,012,079

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $79,581 · end of year $170,176

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $2,878,176

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $112,449 · end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $120,600 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $45,339 · end of year $9,730

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $29,941

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $27,642

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $30,785 · end of year $2,299

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $4,514,531 · end of year $6,791

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $301,000 · end of year $221,700

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $44,049 · end of year $71,956

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $34,386 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $586,339 · end of year $491,639

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,539,511 · end of year $2,725,277

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE ROSTROPOVICH-VISHNEVSKAYA FOUNDATION (RVF) IS A GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION THAT PROMOTES THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF CHILDREN IN NEED THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS THAT CREATE SUSTAINABLE, TRANSFORMATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD. RVF IS A NON-POLITICAL, NON-PARTISAN CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ROSTROPOVICH-VISHNEVSKAYA FOUNDATION (RVF) DESIGNS AND FINANCES NATIONWIDE SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE INITIATIVES BENEFITING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

  • RVF'S MAJOR INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE SAFE WATER FOR DRINKING AND PERSONAL HYGIENE TO CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN GAZA WAS RESUMED IN APRIL 2024. BY THE END OF 2024, RVF HAD INSTALLED 11 FULLY OPERATIONAL DESALINATION UNITS POWERED BY SOLAR SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE DRINKING WATER AND A MEANS OF PERSONAL HYGIENE TO THE DISPLACED POPULATION AT LOCATIONS THE SOUTHERN PART OF GAZA, AS THE NORTH HAD BEEN CLOSED BY THE MILITARY. THIS INITATIVE, MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM THE UAE, DIRECLTY BENEFITED OVER 90,000 CIVILIANS, PRIMARILY CHILDREN. ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER IS A GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH PRIORITY. IN THE GAZA STRIP, HOME TO OVER 2 MILLION PEOPLE, THERE IS AN IMMEDIATE NEED FOR POTABLE WATER TO HELP CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES SURVIVIE. RVF IS CONTINUING THIS LIFE-SAVING WORK IN 2025. GIVEN THE SCOPE OF THE DESTRUCTION IN GAZA AS A RESULT OF THE ONGOING WAR, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW HOW THIS PROGRAM WILL BE SCALED ONCE THE WAR ENDS. RVF IS IN REGULAR CONTACT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UAE, WHO WILL WORK WITH THE ORGANIZATION TO ASSESS THE NEXT STEPS AT THAT TIME.

    Expenses $1,620,966

  • RVF WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO INTRODUCE MODERN VACCINES FOR CHILDREN INTO THE NATIONAL ROUTINE VACCINATION SCHEDULES IN MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES (MICS) AND PUBLISHES THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE PROGRAMS IN PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. THE VACCINATION PROGRAMS ARE IMPLEMENTED ENTIRELY BY LOCAL HEALTH CARE WORKERS, THEREBY BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY AND OWNERSHIP FROM THE BEGINNING, AND ARE FULLY SUSTAINED BY THE HOST GOVERNMENTS WITHIN 3 YEARS OF INCEPTION. FOLLOWING THE LAUNCH OF THE RVF-INITIATED ROTAVIRUS VACCINATION PROGRAM FOR ALL INFANTS IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK IN 2016- APPROXIMATELY 135,000 BABIES ANNUALLY RVF, WITH FINANCING FROM THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION, HAS BEEN CONDUCTING SURVEILLANCE DOCUMENTING THE IMPACT OF THE ROTAVIRUS VACCINE ON THE DISEASE BURDEN. THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE SURVEILLANCE WERE PUBLISHED IN THE PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL VACCINE. UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO THE WAR, THE SUPPLY OF ROTAVIRUS VACCINE WAS INTERRUPTED FROM JUNE THROUGH DECEMBER 2024, SO THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT ROTAVIRUS DISEASE WILL REEMEERGE BEFORE THE VACCINE SUPPLY CAN BE REPLENISHED AND VACCINATION RESUME IN 2025. IN EGYPT RVF CONTIUNES ITS INITIATIVE TO INTRODUCE THE ROTAVIRUS VACCINE INTO THE NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE FOR CHILDREN AND TO TRANSFER THE TECHNOLOGY TO MANUFACTURE THE VACCINE IN THE COUNTRY. THE RVF-SPONSORED BASELINE STUDY OF ROTAVIRUS DISEASE PREVALENCE IN EGYPT, FINANCED BY THE GATES FOUNDATION AND PUBLISHED IN THE EGYPTIAN PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL, HAS LENT MOMENTUM TO THE REGISTRATION PROCESS OF THE VACCINE IN EGYPT AND THE PLANNING OF THE TECH TRANSFER FROM THE INDIAN MANUFACTURER TO AN EGYPTIAN VACCINE MANUFACTURER.

    Expenses $322,599 · Grants $100,073

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Elena Rostropovich

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Thomas R Pickering

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Catherine Mannick

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Razan Al Shatti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edwin Asturias

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Beyrle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Consuelo Duroc-Danner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Monique Duroc-Danner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lubna Hussain

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Natasha Lebedeva

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Orin Levine

    DIRECTOR UNTIL 09/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • J Stephen Morrison

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ghassan Mustaklem

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kimberly A Nearing

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stanley Plotkin MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William P Amoss

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $262,528
    From this org
    $236,587
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,941
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $199,308
    Bonus
    $37,279
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,098
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,843
    Filer's total
    $262,528
  • Merle Nilk

    FINANCE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $162,883
    From this org
    $148,723
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,160
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,723
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,462
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,698
    Filer's total
    $162,883

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 7
WILLIAM P. AMOSS RECEIVED A NON-FIXED DISCRETIONARY BONUS OF $37,279 ON FEBRUARY 9, 2023.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • ROSTROPOVICH-VISHNEVSKAYA FOUNDATION GEORGIA

    CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA OF HEALTH CARE · GG · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by RVF (US)

  • ROSTROPOVICH-VISHNEVSKAYA FOUNDATION RUSSIA

    PREVENTION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH OF CHILDREN · RS · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by RVF (US)

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
10 October 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202532849349300608

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