Amazon Relief
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383219123
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6164539104
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $628,629
- Expenses
- $604,444
- Assets
- $1,821,190
- Liabilities
- $1,003
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas S Flickinger (Vice President Treasurer Director)
- Daniel J Fredricks (Vice President Director)
- James B Flickinger (President Director)
- Lois J Flickinger (Vice President Secretary Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Thomas S Flickinger (Vice President Treasurer Director): $30,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Amazon Relief provides humanitarian aid to victims of poverty
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 Amazon Relief funded soup kitchens, providing over 200,000 meals to the poor. It also funded schools and programs to educate and prepare for employment approximately 1,000 children, teenagers, and adults who are living in poverty. It also provided household assistance, food, social programs, and library and computer facilities to people living within the Amazon. It also constructed community buildings and communication facilities to benefit people living in remote areas of the jungle. It also funded programs to serve indigenous peoples and others who live in remote areas of the jungle. All of the foregoing programs are operated for recipients who reside in the Amazon Region of Brazil.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 53
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $141.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $543K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.