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HEPATITIS B INITIATIVE OFWASHINGTON DC

EIN 20-5841637 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$1,610,572
Expenses 2025
$1,513,722

Program services were 75.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E70
Classification
1000
Street
1725 I ST NW STE 300

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

HBI-DCs mission is to mobilize communities to prevent liver diseases caused by viral hepatitis among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, African immigrants, and other high-risk groups. Through collaborative partnerships, our organization provides culturally and linguistically appropriate viral hepatitis outreach, education, screening, Hep B vaccination, linkage to care, and patient navigation services for impacted communities. We also provide preventative health education for those who may be HIV co-infected and refer them to partnering organizations for additional screening, counseling, and care services.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Prevention of liver diseases caused by viral hepatitis through collaborative partnerships, culturally and linguistically appropriate viral hepatitis outreach, education, screening, vaccination and linkage to care and patient navigation services for impacted communities.

  • 2025 marked 20 years of HBI, and a journey of growth, learning, and intentional evolution. In 2025, HBI conducted over 10,000 free health tests, reaching and screening more than 3,000 individuals across the communities we serve. We began as the Hepatitis B Initiative, focused on raising awareness and providing screenings for a critical health issue affecting underserved populations. But over time, it became clear that testing alone was not enough. Communities were navigating far more than one condition. We saw chronic disease, hypertension, cholesterol concerns, diabetes, metabolic health challenges, infectious diseases beyond hepatitis B, and broader barriers such as housing instability, stigma, addiction, language access, and lack of insurance. The work had already grown beyond hepatitis B. Our name had not. So we made the decision to evolve the organization into the Health Betterment Initiative, to reflect the reality of what our communities needed and what we were committed to addressing. That evolution was not just about identity. It was about impact. In the early years, as was common across many nonprofits, services often stopped at delivery. Screening was provided, but follow-through required resources many organizations could not sustain. Management consciously decided that if HBI If HBI was going to be an effective public health nonprofit, we could not stop at testing. We had to invest in outcomes. That meant building systems that ensured individuals were not left behind after their first interaction with us. Over time, we developed the structured linkage-to-care model that defines HBI today, connecting individuals from screening to real medical follow-up, treatment engagement, and sustainable care. This included: Follow-up support Insurance navigation Targeted outreach to high-incidence populations Engagement strategies for individuals experiencing homelessness or navigating substance use recovery Because meaningful public health work is not a one-stop service. It requires investment, of time, resources, and commitment, to move individuals from awareness to action. Today, HBI addresses a broad range of health priorities, including: Hepatitis B and C HIV and syphilis Vaccine facilitation Hypertension and cholesterol Diabetes and metabolic health, including MASH and MASLD Tuberculosis awareness Alzheimers and dementia education Our approach is guided by population insight and supported by structured data management through our data manager alongside ongoing education for our Community Health Workers led by education coordinator. We are also honored that HBI was selected once again to serve as an insurance navigator through the Virginia Marketplace, helping individuals affected by job loss and economic instability regain access to coverage and sustainable healthcare. Because sometimes what people need most is not another program. It is access. After 20 years, HBI continues to evolve grounded in the belief that improving health requires more than services. It requires systems. Investment. Trust. And a commitment to ensuring no one is left behind. It is an honor for our CEO, Sandra Marrero-Ashford, MPH, MPA, MA to lead this work, and to celebrate this milestone alongside our dedicated team and the communities we serve.

    Expenses $1,137,616

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.

  • SANDRA MARRERO-ASHFORD

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $105,000
    From this org
    $105,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • TIFFANY DONALDSON

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DR LYDIA TANG MD

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • PETROS TADESSE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DR EMMELINE HA

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $1,610,572
    Expenses
    $1,513,722
    Contributions
    $1,608,471
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,615,040
    Expenses
    $1,848,127
    Contributions
    $1,598,951
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,133,289
    Expenses
    $1,187,026
    Contributions
    $1,133,289
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,132,859
    Expenses
    $1,030,175
    Contributions
    $1,132,686
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $988,619
    Expenses
    $805,281
    Assets (EOY)
    $543,864

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $384,341
    Expenses
    $411,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,646

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $484,776
    Expenses
    $332,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,902

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $515,055
    Expenses
    $386,912
    Assets (EOY)
    $257,662

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $392,494
    Expenses
    $402,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,337

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $369,196
    Expenses
    $327,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,296

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $177,726
    Expenses
    $201,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,646

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $189,770
    Expenses
    $145,891
    Assets (EOY)
    $123,945

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,506
    Expenses
    $161,049
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,891

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 2009

Tax period
1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010
Principal officer
Wai-Ping Chan
Mailing address
1725 I StreetSuite 300Washington DC DC 20006
Website
http://www.hepbinitiative.org/
Doing business as
Hepatitis B Initiative DC

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.