Totals
- Total revenue
- $720,317
- Total expenses
- $755,563
- Contributions and grants received
- $719,216
- Grants paid
- $512,017
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $1,101
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $156,408
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $55,401
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $101,007
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $755,563
- Management and general expenses
- $0
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $755,563
Program services were 100.0% 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
$719,216
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3 · Investment income
total $1,101 · excluded $1,101
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $512,017 · program services $512,017
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $147,511 · program services $147,511
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $4,019 · program services $4,019
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $12,050 · program services $12,050
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11b · Fees: legal
total $4,642 · program services $4,642
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17 · Travel
total $1,397 · program services $1,397
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23 · Insurance
total $3,170 · program services $3,170
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24a · Other expenses: Consulting Fees
total $42,227 · program services $42,227
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24b · Other expenses: Volunteer Reimbursement
total $7,865 · program services $7,865
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24c · Other expenses: Printing & Publishing
total $6,455 · program services $6,455
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24d · Other expenses: Printing & Photocopying
total $4,024 · program services $4,024
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24e · All other expenses
total $10,186 · program services $10,186
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
end of year $155,908
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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
$80
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $0 · end of year $500
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $55,401
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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 $0 · end of year $101,007
Mission and programs · 2023
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 access to healthcare and housing during medical treatment in the USA for "Uniting for Ukraine" parolees with rare diseases and their families.
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 "Uniting for Ukraine" parolees.
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Medical support for Ukrainian chirdren with rare diseases program served 241 chilrdren 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 indivdual grants to cover medical services/nutrition for children in Ukraine and in Europe (only those not covered by insurance)
Expenses $213,414 · Grants $83,474
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SMA Program helped 2 children to fundraise for life-saving treatments.
Expenses $98,681 · Grants $40,650
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The unbiased Genetic Disease Program served four 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 $92,534 · Grants $68,606
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USA Resettlement Program assisted 9 children with life-threatening conditions such as spinal muscular atrophy and cystic fibrosis. BFS helped families with housing, payments for food/basic necessities, and transportation.
Expenses $350,934 · Grants $319,287
As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Nataliya Miler
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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Dina Minibaeva
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Sage Hancock
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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
- 2023
- Filed
- 22 October 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202502959349302170
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