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THE BIG FIX

EIN 30-0019352 HYATTSVILLE, MD

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Revenue 2025
$401,038
Expenses 2025
$342,454

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
4000
Street
5033 36TH PL

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Improve animal health and welfare through veterinary service; promote the human-animal bond (through The Comfort Dog Project), reduce the suffering of animals through cruelty and neglect by providing animal welfare education

Activities or mission (Part I)

(1) promote the health and welfare of animals and people through a One Health approach; (2) to promote the human-animal bond; (3) to make low cost and free veterinary services available to animal guardians who could not otherwise afford to pay for such services; (4) to develop and implement animal birth control and rabies programs as humane methods of companion animal population control and disease prevention; (5) to prevent animal cruelty and neglect through education and community outreach.

  • Operation of The BIG FIX Uganda veterinary hospital (the only animal hospital in Northern Uganda) which was open 365 days during 2025, admission of 774 patients to our veterinary hospital for care, provided free rabies vaccinations and deworming to 12,784 dogs and cats, operated Northern Uganda's only veterinary laboratory which performed 1,172 diagnostic tests during 2025, provided free veterinary services in 65 villages; spayed/neutered 686 dogs and cats, exchanged 5,351 unsafe neck restraints on dogs for rope, assisted 2,052 dog guardians to wash and groom their dogs, provided emergency rabies responses to 13 rabies outbreaks; hosted 4 veterinary students for their internships.

    Expenses $243,211 · Grants $238,141

  • The Comfort Dog Project provided ongoing supportive services to over 120 dogs and guardians in the program; paired 12 new rescue dogs with war trauma survivors and supported through training 3 returning guardians and graduated 100% from the 20-week long dog training and bonding program; held "The Great Dog Guardian Games" which showcased dog training and positive human-animal interactions; held 45 meetings for program guardians which included group counseling and vet checks for project dogs; provided 37 individual counseling sessions and 45 group counseling sessions for program guardians and their families, provided free veterinary services for all project dogs, including hospitalization of 39 dogs; made 460 phone calls and 53 home checks to follow up on project participants; held 41 group counseling sessions for war trauma survivors in the villages, each of which was attended by an average of 16 people. The Comfort Dog Project graduates also entirely staffed The BIG FIX Uganda's Animal Welfare Team, which: rescued 90 dogs in need in the community, placed 53 dogs and cats into new adoptive homes after conducting home checks; cared for a total of 930 dogs during the year; maintained permanent foster homes for 2 paralyzed dogs; provided 7,743 dog walks, and bathed 273 dogs at the hospital.

    Expenses $36,482 · Grants $35,721

  • Our school education team included our education manager, the Principle Education Officer for Gulu City, the Lead Canine Officer with Gulu Police Department and three dogs and guardians from The Comfort Dog Project. The education team visited 24 schools, reaching 16,201 students and their teachers and provided information about The Five Animal Freedoms, animal health, rabies prevention, Uganda's anti-cruelty laws, how to communicate with and train dogs, and the health benefits of having dogs as friends. 9,600 copies of "The Great Dog Guardian Book" were distributed. produced 24 radio talk shows about animal health and welfare, laws protecting animals, rabies, the healing power of human-animal bonds, and other timely veterinary issues.

    Expenses $24,321 · Grants $23,321

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.

  • Sibyl Brown

    Director of Development

    Total calculated
    $30,399
    From this org
    $30,399
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

  • Dr Brenda Forsythe

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sarah Schmidt

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Meg Olmert

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Philip Tedeschi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathryn McDonald

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Antje Joslin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $401,038
    Expenses
    $342,454
    Contributions
    $386,731
    Grants paid
    $297,676
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $219,218
    Expenses
    $232,638
    Contributions
    $202,686
    Grants paid
    $230,494
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $256,818
    Expenses
    $227,827
    Contributions
    $256,814
    Grants paid
    $225,380
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $321,474
    Expenses
    $173,086
    Contributions
    $318,724
    Grants paid
    $171,096

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $162,012
    Expenses
    $177,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,548

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2010

Tax period
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010
Principal officer
Sarah A Schmidt
Mailing address
619 Woodworth AvenueSuite 200Clovis CA 93612
Website
www.valleyanimalcoalition.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

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.