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| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a | The foundation collaborates with agencies, engaged in international public health efforts to improve health outcomes. Specifically, the foundation identifies prospective collaborative partners formal organizations, such as NGOs and nonprofits or individuals with which to work to achieve specific health-related goals. These goals are achieved through surgical and medical missions, health-related projects such as the installation of wood-burning cooking stoves in homes where families cook on a dirt floor using stones in a ring to contain a fire, education, food deliveries to the elderly and more. The foundation focuses its work in the remote area of the Alta Verapaz Province in central Guatemala. In 2025 the principal work of the foundation and its executive director have been to finish the construction of a surgical clinic in the town of Santa Cruz in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala and to procure medical and surgical equipment necessary to outfit the surgical clinic upon its completion. The foundation was pleased to have the grand opening of the Guatemalan surgical center on February 21, 2026. In 2025 the foundation shipped two 40-foot containers to the clinic filled with surgical and medical equipment to be used in the clinic itself. The clinic is currently up and running and offering medical services with surgeries to start in October 2026. The foundation expects the number of surgical missions coming to the clinic to expand over the coming years so that more surgeries can be offered to serve more people. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4b | In addition to the public health-related projects it supports in Guatemala, primarily the construction of the surgical clinic, the foundation has also developed additional partnerships with nonprofit organizations which also focus their work on healthcare projects in Guatemala. In 2025 we were excited to continue our relationship with Advance Community based in Phoenix, Arizona, which developed a memorandum of understanding with the organization the foundation primarily supports in Guatemala Living to Serve, based in San Cristobal Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. We were also able to develop our relationship further with the organization Provision International. Provision International was extremely helpful in providing warehouse space for us to prep the container shipments before the containers went to Guatemala. We continued to partner with Vine International to assist us in the shipping logistics and have discussed working with Vine further within Guatemala itself. Both organizations focus on providing healthcare and food in Guatemala and Central America at large. Healthworks Collaborative is excited to develop new relationships with other nonprofits as well as to begin a concerted effort towards developing surgery teams. The surgery teams often serve more than 80 patients in the one-week mission trips that they perform. Healthworks Collaborative also supported the purchase of wood-burning stoves for a stove building project in homes for families cooking on a dirt floor. These families are typically Mayan and do their cooking on the floor of their home, which jeopardizes the health of the family due to the extreme amounts of smoke in the home. Once we have installed stoves, which ventilate smoke to the outside of the home, living conditions inside the home are much improved. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11 | A copy of the completed and signed form 990 is provided to each trustee. The Executuve Director explains the preparation of the form 990 and responds to questions that are raised by the trustees. Additionally, the financial statement prepared by the foundations CPA is distributed and discussed at the meeting. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c | During its annual meeting the foundations trustees and its executive director, being all of the persons involved in management of the foundation, acknowledge any and all apparent conflicts of interest in other related issues. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 | The executive director of the foundation, Bruce Kelling, is the only person who receives compensation from the foundation. Mr. Kelling was appointed by the trustees of the foundation to be its executive director beginning in January 2023 and is paid an annual salary of 150,000 without benefits such as healthcare or a retirement vehicle. Following employment interviews and other written documentation, the trustees hereby acknowledged that i they used a process for determining the compensation of the executive director, Bruce Kelling, as to be reported in Part VII of IRS form 990, ii they use comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in a fundamentally comparable position that similarly situated organizations specifically the 2014 charity CEO compensation published by Charity Navigator and the Council On Foundations study of public charities published in 2014, and iii the trustees determined that the compensation to be paid to the executive director, Bruce Kelling, is reasonable and appropriate for the duties and responsibilities of the office. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 | Copies of the foundation, trust agreement, financial statement, conflict of interest statements and ethics policy will be provided to any party making a legitimate written request. Copying and postage cost will be paid by the foundation. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 1 | To undertake international public health initiatives including pediatric surgery, providing prosthetic limbs for amputees and individuals born without limbs, and working to reduce chronic pulmonary disease in collaboration with publicly supported charities that address the needs of impoverished, children, and families in Guatemala. The foundation does business as Healthworks Collaborative and often uses the acronym HWC, along with its logo and contact information and communications and promotional materials |
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