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HEALTH POVERTY ACTION USA

EIN 86-3924631 MADISON, WI

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Revenue 2025
$132,913
Expenses 2025
$113,050

Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1000
Street
931 E MAIN ST STE 10

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 10). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We recognize that the greatest causes of poor health worldwide are political, social & economic injustices. That is why we tackle the root causes of poor health as well as the symptoms. 2. We prioritize those missed out by others. Development organizations tend to cluster together which leaves large populations with almost no support at all. We make these most neglected populations our highest priority. 3. We address the full range of factors which impact on health. As well as strengthening health services we work on areas such as nutrition, water, sanitation, immunization, & income generation. Tackling one cause of poor health in isolation can give the appearance of improving health, but in reality might do little more than change the cause of death.

  • We work with communities and public health services to improve access to equitable, culturally appropriate care for Indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala, directly supporting 2,368 people through this full project. We are supporting the Ministry of Health to expand culturally appropriate services from 7 to 33 districts, including training staff in intercultural care across health centers and hospitals and equipping facilities with appropriate resources. We have also facilitated dialogue between communities and health workers to build trust and supported practical initiatives, such as building/strengthening 24 medicinal plant gardens that bring together Indigenous Maya medicine and public health practice. This means that community members do not have to decide whether to retain cultural values and practices or to abandon them for state health services. Additionally, we have begun developing a culturally appropriate approach to mental health therapies to address conditions that are taboo, so often go unrecognized, through interviews with Traditional Birth Attendants, Curers, Spiritual Guides and community Nurses to gauge their understanding of various mental health conditions. Public health services in Guatemala have historically not met the needs of Indigenous communities. Our work supports more inclusive health systems by strengthening cultural competence and adapting services to better reflect local needs and knowledge.

    Expenses $30,000 · Grants $50,000

  • Health Poverty Action USA served as fiscal sponsor, providing administration and oversight, for a grant from Agog to We Are Anagram Ltd, the UK-based implementing partner. This project supports Health Poverty Action USA's mission of health equity by building public understanding of neurodivergence and the relationship between stigma, support, and wellbeing. During the first quarter of the project overlapping with this reporting period, Anagram developed and tested a room-scale prototype of Impulse Control Room, a 35-minute interactive projection installation adapted from its award-winning mixed-reality experience, Impulse: Playing with Reality. Using movement tracking, wall-and-floor projection, and documentary testimony, the installation explores experiences of ADHD, including impulse, inhibition, diagnosis, shame, and risk. A series of screenings across the USA is planned for 2027. The project builds on a separate, Agog-supported longitudinal evaluation of the original Impulse experience, involving 118 participants with a one-month follow-up: nine in ten reported increased empathy toward people with ADHD, and more than half of participants who suspected they had ADHD reported seeking professional support afterward.

    Expenses $78,720 · Grants $82,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jini Jasti

    President, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Leena Moiz

    Member, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Oliver Kemp

    Treasurer, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathi Seiden-Thomas

    Secretary, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kelly Douglas

    Chief Development Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Gregg Potter

    Member, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $132,913
    Expenses
    $113,050
    Contributions
    $132,913
    Grants paid
    $108,720
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $60,115
    Expenses
    $59,939
    Contributions
    $60,115
    Grants paid
    $47,651
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $87,040
    Expenses
    $75,656
    Contributions
    $87,040
    Grants paid
    $55,796

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
Principal officer
Kelly Douglas
Mailing address
931 E Main Street Suite 10Madison WI 53703
Website
www.healthpovertyactionusa.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.