nonprofit
Americares
Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization. It helps people affected by poverty or disaster with medicine, medical supplies, health services and programs. It was founded in 1979 in New Canaan, Connecticut, and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
EIN: 06-1008595americares.org
President and Chief Executive Officer
Key facts
- Founded
- 1979, by Robert Macauley in New Canaan, Connecticutsource
- Aid delivered since 1979
- More than $17 billion in humanitarian aid to 164 countriessource
- Annual aid
- Nearly $2 billion a year, to an average of 85 countriessource
- President and CEO
- Christine Squires, named in 2020source
- Total revenue, Form 990 for fiscal year ending June 2025 (filed as Americares Foundation Inc)
- $1,851,063,617source
WYDE coverage of Americares
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