Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$877,303

Total expenses

$804,019

Contributions and grants received

$877,303

Grants paid

$22,146

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$193,055

Total liabilities, end of year

$507,239

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

-$314,184

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$714,279

Management and general expenses

$74,801

Fundraising expenses

$14,939

Program service expenses (Part III)

$714,279

Program services were 88.8% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE U.S. ADVOCACY PROGRAM PROVIDES TRAINING OF FGM SURVIVORS TO BECOME INFORMATION ADVISORS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. IT ALSO INCLUDES VARIOUS WORKSHOPS AROUND MULTIPLE U.S. CITIES TO TEACH PRACTICING COMMUNITIES ABOUT FGM AND TO WORK WITH FRONT LINE PROFESSIONALS. YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE CONDUCTED IN AFTER SCHOOL SETTINGS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL REFUGEE STUDENTS AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WITH LARGE IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS AND HELPING THEM BECOME ADVOCATES FOR THEIR OWN HEALTH.

  Expenses $348,053

• THE GAMBIAN ADVOCACY PROGRAM PROVIDES TRAINING OF FGM SURVIVORS TO BECOME INFORMATION ADVISORS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. IT ALSO INCLUDES VARIOUS WORKSHOPS AROUND SURROUNDING VILLAGES TO TEACH PRACTICING COMMUNITIES ABOUT FGM AND TO WORK WITH FRONT LINE PROFESSIONALS.

  Expenses $106,328 · Grants $21,766

• FROM JUNE 10, 2024 JULY 15, 2024, SAFE HANDS SPONSERED LAWMAKERS VISITS TO EGYPT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FGM AND ITS CORRELATION TO THE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF ISLAM. THIS EVENT SERVED AS A BENCHMARKING ACTIVITY FOR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS.

  Expenses $83,349

• THE FGM REPEAL VOTE EVENT, WAS HELD THROUGHOUT JUNE 27, 2024 JULY 25, 2024, AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, WHERE LAWMAKERS DECIDED IF THE LAW TO REPEAL FGM SHOULD STAY OR BE REPEALED.

  Expenses $15,410

• THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENT, WAS HELD FROM APRIL 4-30, 2024, DEEP WITHIN THE LOCAL URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES AROUND GREATER BANJUL AND THE WEST COAST REGION, TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ABOUT FGM, AND TO INFORM COMMUNITY MEMBERS HOW THEY SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT TO REPEAL THE LAW TO CONTINUE FGM PRACTICES.

  Expenses $16,122

• THE FGM SENSITIZATION EVENT, WAS HELD FROM MAY 27, 2024 JUNE 2, 2024, IN VARIOUS COMMUNITIES, TO DISCUSS THE DANGERS OF FGM, INCLUDING HEALTH RISKS; FGM SURVIVORS ALSO SPOKE ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES, INCULDING THE DANGERS OF FGM, AND THE TRAUMAS THEY HAVE FACED AND THE DANGERS FGM CAUSES.

  Expenses $17,597

• THE GLOBAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM RAISES AWARENESS OF THE PLIGHT TO END FGM AND CHILD MARRIAGE, AND BRINGS ATTENTION TO THESE ISSUES IN ORDER TO SHAPE POLICY AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION. SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS WORKS WITH GOVERNMENTS AND UN BODIES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO BRING MUCH NEEDED ATTENTION TO THESE ISSUES.

  Expenses $14,618 · Grants $380

• THE FGM REPEAL EVENT, HELD FROM MARCH 15-20, 2024, WAS THE PREPARATION STAGE, INVITING NGOS TO WORK TOGETHER, AS A COLLECTIVE, TO START MAKING PLANS AND STRATEGIES TO END FGM PRACTICIES.

  Expenses $11,103

• AFTER TEN YEARS OF POWERFUL ADVOCACY TO END FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV), SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS RECOGNIZED THAT THE FOUNDATION, FOR ALL FREEDOM, IS ECONOMIC. THE REGENERATIVE HUBS PROGRAM WAS CREATED TO BRIDGE OUR ADVOCACY WITH ACTION BY EMPOWERING WOMEN AND YOUTH TO REBUILD THEIR COMMUNITIES THROUGH SUBSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS. EACH HUB TRAINS SURVIVORS AND AT-RISK WOMEN IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE, SOIL RESTORATION, AND CLIMATE-SMART ENTREPRENEURSHIP, TRANSFORMING LAND ONCE DEPLETED AND LIVES ONCE MARGINALIZED. BY LINKING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY WITH THE PREVENTION OF HARMFUL PRACTICES, REGENERATIVE HUBS ADVANCE SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS' MISSION TO CREATE SAFETY, DIGNITY, AND LASTING INDEPENDENCE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS.

  Expenses $101,699 · Revenue $101,850

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

11 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

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