Partnerships for Change
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
PFC focuses on advancing justice and equity across the areas of spiritual entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, humanitarian aid, educational advancement for girls and young women, filmmaking, climate equity and the environment.
- Income
- $1.2 million
- Spending
- $1.1 million
- Spent on programs
- 86%
- Reserves
- 3.3 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 100%
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 21
- Highest pay
- $6,000, president
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 85 out of 100.
Reserves
20 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 3.3 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 3% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 6% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 8% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1586% of spending went to programs.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Good: 80 out of 100.
Independent board
25 of 255 of 5 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
Independent check of accounts
0 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $947,710 spent. Partnerships For Change (PFC) partnered with the Rural Indian Support Trust(RIST) - the largest private foundation in India to deliver food as medicine. Theprogram feeds nutritious meals. PFC designed the food itself and arranged for thedistribution, including a patented protein drink to 30,000 daily of the most forgotten living in slums during where the COVID-19 crisis the experience increased food insecurity. We plan to scale this program to thousands more project in India for free medical care and the food described. See the video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieJwi8PiPI).The Children's Educations and Development (CED) Society is an orphanage and arefuge for "differently abled" young women. CED over the past 22 years has beenfiscally sponsored and developed with the support of Partnerships For Change. Mostlyyoung female children have been rescued from a remote and traditional communityhigh up in the Himalayas. These young have been raised with the best education andsupportive home life. This year some of the residents of CED completed college andheld paid internships at Salesforce in India. It is our Cloud to Cloud achievement where young and often neglected female children have educated themselves so well that they received a paid internship to work on the digital cloud. PFC has continued support for this long term project, supporting the development and growth of the children into young adults.Partnerships For Change is committed to more holistic and community widedevelopment in Liberia. PFC has embarked on a partnership with a locally-basedspiritual religious organization in Liberia with a strong base of trust. We are building and have broken ground on a community health clinic in Liberia that will serve a community of 50,000,PFC is advising the African Union Great Green Wall (GGW ) to raise significant fundsand scale regenerative forests and agricultural projects.During the international conference on the 4th anniversary of Laudato Si' in July2019, PFC joined The Vatican, the Global Catholic Climate Movement, WWF, UNEPand CYNESA to bring young people from all continents to the UNEP complex inNairobi, Kenya. The outcome was a bold commitment by young people to lead theLaudato Si' Generation towards caring for the environment. PFC has sinceestablished a formal partnership with Catholic Youth Network for EnvironmentalSustainability in Africa (CYNESA). Specifically, PFC is a founder of the Angaza Tree Company, Ltd. company in Kenyaled by Alphonce Muia of Nairobi. Angaza will regenerate the ecosystem andeconomic livelihoods of women with the fruits of the Baobab trees. The produce willgenerate super-nutrient protein powder, supplements and oils for local and globalmarkets. Our long term objective is to scale the synergy of ecosystem and economicregeneration to places along the GGW. For the first time in the history of the GreatGreen Wall, we presented a project to approach sovereign wealth funds for AfricanUnion's building of the GGW to benefit 150 millions people living along the 8,000 miles of the Great Green Wall.Expanding the impact of the Vatican's Laudato Si' Action Platform in partnership with His Holiness Pope Francis and ECHo with the Pontifical Academy of Scienceand Dicastery to Promote Integral Human Development (sustainable development).ln the next seven years we are dedicated to implementing the principles for global development to reduce global warming and poverty. The blueprints for radical environmental and social change are described in the Pope's encyclical, Laudato SP and The Green Ten Commandments authored by our partner, Father Joshtrom Kureethadam, He is the coordinator for ecology and creation at the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.The seeds of this multi-faith initiative are being sown with the 1.3 billion Catholics and allied faiths around the globe. Our project emphasizes protecting the poor and indigenous, their land and sacred wisdom, promoting regenerative agriculture and forestry all while promoting the greening of Vatican properties which are the world's most extensive real estate holdings estimated at 177 million acres.The Toxic Free Future For Our Children (TFFFOC) project was inaugurated with PFC asa partner and fiscal sponsor. The mission of this project is to use the best science that calls out toxic chemicals in our environment that are damaging the health of children and populations most vulnerable to toxic consequences. With sustainable targets and deep expertise of sustainable and regenerative agriculture the project aims to build awareness and be a force to change the nature of farming and the food it produces in a toxic free environment. As part of this effort, PFC was a fiscal sponsor for a documentary on the toxic legacy of glyphosate fertilizers.Decarbonize convenes leading innovators in technology and business and academicsto raise the power and effectiveness of reducing carbon and thereby reduce globalwarming or at the very minimum adapt to Global Warming.The Decarbonized team and global alliance searches for proven solutions in: efficiency; low carbon energy; carbon dioxide capture; regenerative forests; circular economy models; ocean conservation; and curated tech solutions focused on drawdown, implemented natural carbon preservation and designed sustainable storage.Partnerships For Change is a fiscal sponsor,Accomplishments: Amazonas Action Alliance FORESTLABS was nominated tocompete for $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest. The ACT NOW FORESTLABS team is coledby Nantar Inga, an Amazonian Indigenous leader, scientist, and entrepreneur, FionaBanister, a Climate Impact Strategist/Educator and Naiara Yusy Sampaio Dolabella,Environmental Lawyer, Indigenous leader from the Ye'pa Mahsa nation in Brasil.Ecuador Indigenous Amazon Rainforest Relief Fund.Decarbonized.org is facilitating multiple fundraisers to provide relief to the Indigenous Ecuadorians and those groups in Brazil also fighting for the Amazon Rainfo
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since March 1994.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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