Charity profile · Historical source record

Doctors Without Borders, USA

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Providing emergency medical care
Doctors Without Borders, USA (DWB-USA) was founded in 1990 in New York City to raise funds, create awareness, recruit field staff, and advocate with the United Nations and US government on humanitarian concerns. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization that provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

94.74Overall score
out of 100
97.50Financial score
out of 100
93.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$392,524,069
Total expenses · USD$420,595,919

Program expenses

$375,171,559.75 recorded amount
89.2%

Fundraising expenses

$38,694,824.55 recorded amount
9.2%

Administrative expenses

$5,888,342.87 recorded amount
1.4%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
Jason Cone
Recorded compensation
$201,968.00
Recorded compensation percentage
0.04%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Doctors Without Borders, USA
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
93.0
category
Category
International
description
Mission & description
Doctors Without Borders, USA (DWB-USA) was founded in 1990 in New York City to raise funds, create awareness, recruit field staff, and advocate with the United Nations and US government on humanitarian concerns. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization that provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.
ein
EIN
13-3433452
tot_exp
Total expenses
420595919.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.013999999999999999
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.09
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.092
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.892
fscore
Financial score
97.5
leader
Recorded leader
Jason Cone
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
201968.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0004
motto
Tagline
Providing emergency medical care
name
Charity name
Doctors Without Borders, USA
tot_rev
Total revenue
392524069.0
score
Overall score
94.74
state
State code
NY
subcategory
Subcategory
Development and Relief Services
size
Source size label
big
program_exp
Program expenses
375171559.748
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
38694824.548
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
5888342.865999999

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.