Arab Forum for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Arfpd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871135819
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Port Chester, NY, USA
Phone
7037275093
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Disabled Persons' Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,550
Expenses
$99,233
Assets
$29,817

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • Sylvana lakkis (Chairman)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We work in partnership with and empower grassroots movements and organizations of persons with disabilities as well as relevant stakeholders for promoting disability rights according to the principles of diversity and inclusion. We advocate for disability rights to be enforced through national laws, ensuring their compliance with the CRPD and other human rights conventions and treaties as well as the Sustainable Development Agenda.

What it reported doing in 2025

Finalize three -year strategy as well as fundraising strategy and launch the work on its public outreach strategy.The first project which is funded by the US State Department through the NDI, continues to be implemented in Tunisia, Lebanon, Libya, and Morocco. The reasons for not being able to implement the project in the remaining countries are due to the security conditions in both Syria and Yemen, or to the weak representation of the Forum in Iraq,2-FORD foundation Funded project, which aims at achieving a paradigmatic shift towards ensuring the Right of Persons with Disabilities for Inclusive Social Protection policies and emergency response programs to be adopted by Arab governments, private sector, civil society stakeholders, and relevant international organizations operating in the region:

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -382.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -66.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -37.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.