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Form 990-EZ for tax year 2023

Filed by GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS.

Totals

Total revenue
$157,572
Total expenses
$273,945
Contributions and grants received
$150,622
Grants paid
not reported
Program service revenue
not reported
Membership dues (line 3)
not reported
Investment income (line 4)
$6,950
Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
$0
Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
$0
Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
$0
Other revenue (line 8)
not reported
Total assets, end of year
$428,000
Total liabilities, end of year
not reported
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$428,000
Program service expenses (Part III)
$247,647

Program services were 90.4% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2023

Primary exempt purpose

To help babies and young children with hearing loss under 5 years of age living in low resource countries access the early identification hearing technology and locally-based professional support they need to listen and talk. We develop and implement programs with in-country partners to improve health and early education and raise awareness for pediatric hearing loss and available interventions.

  • The GFCHL's Nepal program is a collaboration with the Hospital for Children Eye ENT and Rehabilitation Services CHEERS in Nepal. The multi-year initiative intends to demonstrate how the full Continuum of Care from infant screening to habilitation services can be implemented in a low resource country with challenging terrain to help babies and very young children with hearing loss to listen and talk. Such services and expertise are extremely limited in Nepal. There is also low awareness for that potential among families in the country. Both Nepali professionals and community ear health workers are engaged in this comprehensive program. In May 2023 and October 2023 the GFCHL professional training team began teaching the GFCHL's curriculum in pediatric audiology and auditory-verbal therapy to a cohort of 20 Nepali community ear health workers and audiologists in two 2-week training workshops. Families of children with hearing participated in the practicum sessions and attended a Family seminar. We also conducted 3 seminars for about 50 nurses pediatricians and other front line workers about pediatric hearing loss and how it can be addressed. Our Executive Director visited Nepal between training workshops to advance our program development conduct site visits and to cultivate GFCHL relationships with the CHEERS team and with other Nepali health professionals.

    Expenses $109,086 · Grants $103,915

  • As part of its Nepal program the GFCHL donated a new audiometer speakers and real ear equipment to the Hospital for Children Ear ENT and Rehabilitation CHEERS for use in its pediatric audiology room. GFCHL also donated 3 otoscopes 3 infant hearing screening devices 3 tympanometers and 3 real ear equipment to CHEERS for use by the community ear health workers in remote clinics. These CEHWs are participating in the GFCHL's training program. The GFCHL also donated 48 new Oticon hearing aids to children under 5 years of age identified with hearing loss through this program. These children are being supported ongoing in their listening and spoken language development by the CHEERS team and CEHWs trained by the GFCHL.

    Expenses $52,886 · Grants $52,886

  • The GFCHL Mongolia program is a collaboration with the Mongolia National Center for Maternal and Child Health and other partners in the Mongolian medical community to implement nationwide newborn hearing screening increase awareness for pediatric hearing loss and provide training in pediatric audiology and auditory-verbal therapy to Mongolian professionals and families to support babies and young children identified with hearing loss so they can learn to listen and speak. This year the GFCHL professional training team conducted our fifth 2-week training workshop in Ulaanbaatar to continue teaching the GFCHL's curriculum to 50Mongolian ENT doctors audiologists therapists and teachers. Families joined practicum sessions of the workshop to enable the participants an opportunity to apply what they were learning with oversight from the GFCHL professional team. Family members also attended a family seminar to learn how to support their children with hearing loss at home.

    Expenses $39,382 · Grants $20,000

  • This year we signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Nairobi in Kenya in support of pediatric elements in the new national Ear and Hearing Care Strategy approved by the Kenya Ministry of Health in 2023. Our agreement starts with the GFCHL conducting a two-year training program in auditory-verbal therapy for a cohort of Kenyan speech and hearing professionals that will launch in June 2024. Kenya program expenditures this year were allocated to two program development visits to Kenya by the GFCHL Executive Director and advance expenses associated with the upcoming June 2024 two-week training workshop.

    Expenses $32,588

  • The GFCHL is a member of the World Health Organization World Hearing Forum. The GFCHL Executive Director engages in committee work for the World Hearing Forum throughout the year and traveled to Geneva in November 2023 to represent the GFCHL at the World Hearing Forum annual meeting.

    Expenses $13,705

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

Listed in Part IV

  • Edwin W Rubel

    President and Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • David DeYoung

    Treasurer and Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sharron M Stringer

    Secretary and Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jacque Patton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Barrett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • David L Horn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Harig

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Frances Lalas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paige Stringer

    Founder and Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $122,000
    Compensation
    $122,000
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    60

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_ez
Tax year
2023
Filed
29 August 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202402429349200400

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