A Salt Lake City nonprofit that recovers surplus U.S. medical supplies and routes them to clinics abroad — with IRS filings showing multimillion-dollar flows and a website claiming a billion dollars in goods moved.
Globus Relief
venture active confidence: Medium status: Draft updated 2026-08-11
Summary
Globus Relief recovers surplus medical supplies and equipment from the US healthcare system and distributes them to underserved clinics internationally (about page). Primary-tier FY ending Dec. 2024 financials show $5.09M revenue and $9.85M expenses with $2.58M net assets (Form 990 record).
Impact
Primary-tier FY ending Dec. 2024 financials show $5.09M revenue and $9.85M expenses with $2.58M net assets (Form 990 record). Revenue combined $3.34M contributions (65.7%), $1.12M program services (21.9%), and $612K net inventory sales (12.0%) — consistent with a logistics nonprofit moving donated goods, not only cash grants. Filings attach Schedule M (noncash contributions), but ProPublica's HTML summary does not extract in-kind dollar lines, so the wiki cannot yet quote a primary-tier in-kind total from this capture alone.
That gap matters because the website's $1 Billion headline is not reconciled to any captured 990 line. The brochure metric and the regulator filing measure different things (lifetime in-kind throughput vs. annual cash-basis revenue/expense), but without Schedule M text the page cannot assert the billion-dollar claim beyond attribution.
The organization markets administrative and fundraising expenses below 1% and 100% of donations to programs because overhead is "already paid for" (about page). The Dec. 2024 990 extract lists Daniel Henrie (CEO) at $132,000 and Chase Henrie (Srn Director) at $115,600 against $9.85M total expenses (Form 990 record) — not a zero-overhead structure in the filing, whatever the self-funding model explanation may be. The same return reported conflict of interest transactions (Schedule L flag on ProPublica).
Bet: that warehousing and sorting donated medical surplus in Salt Lake City is a high-leverage intervention because U.S. healthcare discards usable equipment at scale and overseas clinics face stockouts — logistics, not discovery, is the bottleneck.
The honest counterweight: marketing metrics ($1B, 160 countries, Charity Navigator 4-star every year) are self-reported on the About capture; FY 2024 shows expenses exceeding revenue by ~$4.8M on the extracted summary, which may reflect inventory accounting but is unexplained here.
Utah Context
Headquartered at 1032 W 2610 S, Salt Lake City (about page), matching the IRS Globous Relief Fund record. Utah is the sorting and shipping node for international outbound aid — a Wasatch Front humanitarian logistics employer, not a remote grantmaker.
What They Need Now
Captured pages emphasize donations, corporate/medical supply partners, and warehouse operations (about page). No careers URL was captured; needs likely include logistics/warehouse staff, partnership development, and finance/compliance given Schedule L conflict disclosures and inventory scale — inferred, not sourced to a jobs page.
Open Questions
- Schedule M in-kind totals not in ProPublica HTML — pull PDF 990 for FY 2024 to quote donated medical goods volume.
- $1 Billion cumulative claim vs. annual 990 revenue — lifetime in-kind throughput needs a filing or audited statement, not the homepage counter alone.
- Charity Navigator 4-star claim not verified in this shard.
- FY 2024 expense overrun ($9.85M expenses vs. $5.09M revenue) unexplained on summary page.
- Best of State medal not asserted in this shard.