Care

Legal name: Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc

Overview

Mission

CARE works around the globe to save lives and defeat poverty. Your Gift = Helping Families Give moms and children worldwide a gift that provides food, health supplies, and shelter to families in crisis. Give Now. Give moms and children worldwide a gift that provides food, health supplies, and shelter to families in crisis. Give Now SIGN UP FOR OUR MAILING LIST. There are many meaningful ways for companies to partner with CARE and support our mission to save lives and defeat poverty. Explore corporate partnership** : Learn more about how CARE works with companies to build customized, high-impact partnerships. Corporate partnerships at CARE. Make a corporate donation** : Reach out to our Corporate Partnerships team at [email protected] to explore giving opportunities or to make a direct contribution to CARE’s work around the world.

What it reported doing in 2024

Humanitarian: approximately half of care's work relates to humanitarian. In times of conflict or disaster, care responds to save lives, with special attention to the needs of women and families and the most marginalized. Care's humanitarian activities include preparedness and early action, emergency response and recovery, and encourages future resilience. Humanitarian work reflects ongoing conflicts and natural disasters in countries that we operate. For fiscal years 2025 and 2024, our largest humanitarian efforts were in ethiopia, turkey, sudan, and yemen.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, 24% for grants, and 0% for affiliated organizations.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
131685039
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Headquarters
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
4046812552
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
International Development

Official website

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 98
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Pass
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 96%; rating input score 96; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 24 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $751.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $539K · 41 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $27.5M reported
  • Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 39 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 29 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Leadership & pay

41 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • MARY M NUNN (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $539,217 total reported compensation
  • SARAH J TAYLOR PEACE (CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER): $434,528 total reported compensation
  • RANIL N DE SILVA (CHIEF FINANCIAL & OPTG OFFICER): $400,263 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.