Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,231,606
- Total expenses
- $646,533
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,231,596
- Grants paid
- $419,957
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $10
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $743,287
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $57,401
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $685,886
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $587,647
- Management and general expenses
- $58,136
- Fundraising expenses
- $750
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $587,647
Program services were 90.9% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,231,596
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$237,787
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3 · Investment income
total $10 · excluded $10
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $22,793 · program services $22,793
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $397,164 · program services $397,164
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $102,863 · program services $71,623 · management and general $31,240
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $1,062 · management and general $1,062
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $9,325 · management and general $9,325
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17 · Travel
total $1,000 · program services $1,000
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23 · Insurance
total $2,642 · program services $2,122 · management and general $520
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24a · Other expenses: Ukraine grant expenses
total $64,870 · program services $64,870
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24b · Other expenses: Consulting Fees
total $13,905 · program services $13,810 · management and general $95
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24c · Other expenses: Contract & Professional
total $13,825 · program services $12,815 · management and general $260 · fundraising $750
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24d · Other expenses: Reimbursements
total $11,638 · management and general $11,638
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24e · All other expenses
total $5,446 · program services $1,450 · management and general $3,996
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $155,908 · end of year $742,981
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$580
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$274
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $500 · end of year $306
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $55,401 · end of year $57,401
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29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds
beginning of year $101,007 · end of year $685,886
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
BFS Supports children diagnosed with rare, inheritable diseases from eastern Europe. We help families with children that have rare diseases get access to medical care, genetic testing, rehabilitation, and equipment not covered by insurance. Since the war in Ukraine, we helped to re-establish medical care and access to housing during medical treatment for a number of Ukrainian families in the USA, who were confirmed "Uniting for Ukraine" parolees.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Birds for Sofia supports children diagnosed with rare, inheritable diseases from Eastern Europe. We help families with children with rare diseases access medical care, genetic testing, rehabilitation, and equipment not covered by insurance. Since the war in Ukraine, we helped to re-establish medical care and access to housing during medical treatment for a number of Ukrainian families in the USA, who were confirmed through "Uniting for Ukraine" parolees.
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Medical support for Ukrainian children with rare diseases program served hundreds of children with rare diseases from Ukraine. BFS delivered medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators, NIVL breathing devices, electricity generators, wheelchairs, standing frames, sitters, and other most needed medical equipment, as well as paid for medical services or provided individual grants to cover medical services/nutrition for children in Ukraine and in Europe (only those not covered by insurance).
Expenses $408,637 · Grants $317,137
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The unbiased Genetic Disease Program served patients from Eastern Europe and helped to cover medications, rehabilitation services, and hospital treatments including complex surgery for children with less-known rare diseases.
Expenses $151,338 · Grants $75,151
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USA resettlement program helped famlies with housing, payments for foo/basic necessities, and transportation.
Expenses $22,793 · Grants $22,793
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SMA Program helped children to fundraise for life-serving treatments.
Expenses $4,879 · Grants $4,876
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Nataliya Miller
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Matt Lambert
Financial Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Sage Hancock
Executive Firector
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Tetiana Gudyma
Head of Programs
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
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Claire Harrison
Operations Assistant
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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
- 3 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202513079349301641
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