ADRA International
Legal name: Adventist Development & Relief Agency International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521314847
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 1.800.424.ADRA (2372)
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International, Foreign Affairs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,928,709
- Expenses
- $80,677,930
- Assets
- $82,372,446
- Liabilities
- $11,207,326
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
65 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAULO LOPES (BOARD SECRETARY /PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSUE ORELLANA GUEVARA (DIR. OF HEALTH, NUTRITION AND WASH): $282,530 total reported compensation
- MATT SILIGA ENDED 1025 (VP FOR MARKETING & DEV.): $258,627 total reported compensation
- MARIO LOPES DE OLIVEIRA (DIRECTOR FOR EMERGENCY MAN): $257,033 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve humanity so all may live as God intended. Are you passionate with a heart for service? Find out how YOU can support ADRA’s mission today! Learn How Join Our Team. You are important to us and we welcome your support, questions, and feedback. Thank you for your patience as we respond to a high volume of messages and calls every day. Call Us 1.800.424.ADRA (2372). The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is the global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Founded in 1956 as the Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service and renamed ADRA in 1984, the agency has a long and successful history of providing humanitarian relief and implementing development initiatives. What does ADRA do? Through an **international network** , ADRA delivers relief and development assistance to individuals in more than 120 countries—regardless of their ethnicity, political...
What it reported doing in 2025
Development and relief projects, disaster assistance funding and grant match: adra international supported projects in over 56 countries. Projects included emergency management of disaster relief and long-term recovery. Economic development projects are aimed to improve the quality of life for recipients (both men and women). Food security projects include famine relief and short-term needs from displacement. Long term projects include the sectors of water, sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition, agriculture, livelihoods, and economic growth. These needs are addressed with agricultural projects and training the recipients in various skills. Adra supports basic education in various skills. Adra supports basic education, for both children and adults in literacy and vocational skills. Adra promotes primary health with access, as well as training for community care.adra held conferences and summits throughout the year for network strengthening and support which rendered revenue of $207,246. Adra maintains and manages the adra network accounting system which rendered revenue of $109,655. Other revenue of $123,740 was received from miscellaneous activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 78.7%; rating input score 79; 13th 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: -6.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 70.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 37 of 47 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $56.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $283K · 65 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
- Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.