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VENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

EIN 30-0037857 BERKELEY, CA

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Revenue 2024
$3,084,745
Expenses 2024
$2,820,669

Program services were 87.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E42
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 10144

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 · 2024

Mission

TO FACILITATE BENEFICIAL CHANGE IN HEALTH, FAMILY PLANNING AND ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF VENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT (VSHD) ARE TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN LOW RESOURCE COUNTRIES BY REDUCING BARRIERS THAT INHIBIT WOMEN FROM HAVING ACCESS TO OPTIONS ABOUT CHILDBEARING; SUPPORTING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROMISING HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE-SCALE IMPACT AROUND THE WORLD; AND INCREASING UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPERATIVE OF SLOWING POPULATION GROWTH WITH A VOLUNTARY HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK.

Activities or mission (Part I)

OASIS ADVANCES EDUCATION AND CHOICE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS, THROUGH PROGRAMS, CAPACITY BUILDING AND POLICY ADVOCACY. WE WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH A STRONG NETWORK OF PARTNERS BASED IN THE SAHEL.

  • VSHD, WITH PARTNER, CENTRE FOR GIRLS EDUCATION, CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR FIVE MODELS OF SAFE SPACES PROGRAMMING FOR MORE THAN 4,500 GIRLS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA. VSHD, WITH PARTNER LUMIERE DES FILLES ET DES FEMMES, CONTINUED SUPPORT OF SAFE SPACES FOR 996 IN-SCHOOL GIRLS (AIMED TO DELAY EARLY MARRIAGE BY KEEPING GIRLS IN SCHOOL) AND 307 MARRIED ADOLESCENT GIRLS (AIMED TO EDUCATE GIRLS ON LIFE SKILLS AND ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES) IN MARADI, NIGER. VSHD SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENTS ON THE AVAILABILITY OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MEDICINES USING VSHDS AVAILABILITY FRAMEWORK IN FOUR COUNTRIES AND DISSEMINATED RESULTS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATION STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS. VSHD LAUNCHED A PROGRAM IN TCHAD TO REGISTER A QUALITY-ASSURED MISOPROSTOL PRODUCT AND INTEGRATE IT INTO THE PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO ASSIST THE GOVERNMENT IN REDUCING MATERNAL MORTALITY DUE TO POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE (CURRENTLY THE LEADING CAUSE OF MATERNAL DEATH). THE TCHAD MINISTRY OF HEALTH SIGNED A FORMAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TO INITIATE THE PROGRAM IN THREE REGIONS. VSHD SUPPORTED GRADE AFRICA IN THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF TWO PROGRAMS: POPULATION & DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION IN THREE NIGER UNIVERSITIES, (ENROLLING 104 STUDENTS IN FOUR DISTRICT COURSES AND OFFERING 27 SCHOLARSHIPS), AND A GROUP PRENATAL CARE PROJECT IN MARADI, NIGER (REACHING 840 PREGNANT MOTHERS).VSHD CREATED THE ELLES DU SAHEL, A DIVERSE GROUP OF 16 FEMALE ACTIVISTS FROM THE SAHEL, THE EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED STATES TO ADVOCATE AT THE REGIONAL AND GLOBAL LEVEL FOR INCREASED ATTENTION TO AND FUNDING FOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS, GIRLS EDUCATION, AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE. VSHD, WITH PARTNER JEUNES VOLUNTAIRE POUR LENVIRONNEMENT, WORKED TO INTEGRATE FAMILY PLANNING INTO CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS IN NIGER. FINAL DRAFT PLANS ARE UNDER REVIEW WITH THE NIGER GOVERNMENT.

    Expenses $2,458,703 · Grants $1,439,220 · Revenue $44,750

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Natalie Williams

    CO EXEC. DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $136,000
    From this org
    $136,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sarah Jane Holcombe

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $106,112
    From this org
    $106,112
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alisha Graves

    CO EXEC. DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $54,080
    From this org
    $54,080
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

  • Karen Pak Oppenheimer

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Margot Fahnestock

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Fadji Maina

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Malcolm Potts

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Gillespie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,084,745
    Expenses
    $2,820,669
    Contributions
    $3,003,224
    Grants paid
    $1,439,220
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,488,764
    Expenses
    $2,706,164
    Contributions
    $2,373,409
    Grants paid
    $1,586,889
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,230,131
    Expenses
    $3,071,396
    Contributions
    $2,088,153
    Grants paid
    $2,066,412

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

    Revenue
    $3,085,669
    Expenses
    $1,922,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,874,976

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $813,203
    Expenses
    $1,996,917
    Assets (EOY)
    $703,931

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,945,320
    Expenses
    $996,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,881,922

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $933,173
    Expenses
    $941,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $897,505

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $723,398
    Expenses
    $725,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $940,915

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $746,068
    Expenses
    $164,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $915,113

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $98,860
    Expenses
    $180,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,269

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $215,160
    Expenses
    $149,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $425,981

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $106,162
    Expenses
    $267,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $386,140

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $173,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $547,467

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 11 November 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.