Development and Relief Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200860523
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Vienna, VA, USA
Phone
(202)590-3000
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Islam

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$998,237
Expenses
$1,173,974
Assets
$1,549,152
Liabilities
$345

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SEYED ALI GHAZVINI (President)
  • SEYED MOSTAFA QAZWINI (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • SEYED ALI GHAZVINI (President): $120,000 total reported compensation
  • Saleh Diaaldeen (Operation Director): $67,308 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Development and Relief Foundation’s mission is to bring healing and hope to broken hearts, promising them a bright future by: Providing quality education to children. Offering income-generating training to widows. Distributing nourishing food to underserved families. Sponsoring orphans and less fortunate children. Distributing food, clothing, and blankets at refugee camps. Providing interest-free micro/student loans. Providing healthcare services through Imam al-Hujjah Hospital.

What it reported doing in 2025

GRANTS FOR EDUCATION: Development and Relief Foundation provides funding for four schools, serving orphans and non-orphans. Over 100 teachers and administrators served an average of 603 boys and girls every year for the last 20 years.The Development and Relief Foundation provides funding for Imam al-Sadiq elementary school that was established in 2007. Students study courses ranging from math, science, history, social studies, Arabic, and English, Saturday through Thursday. What makes the Development and Relief Foundations school so special is the fact that DRF has gone beyond the required curriculum by adding computer skills and physical education courses.Al-Sadiq Elementary school has had a 97% pass rating for the last year. All students are Orphans. Food, clothing, school supplies, and transportation are provided to all students free of charge.DRF also provides funding for a preschool and kindergarten that exclusively caters to over 17 orphans and has proudly started teaching these future leaders.DRF also provides funding for Al-Salihat Girls Academy since November 2014, Al-Salihat Girls Academy teaches hundreds of intelligent young women. Graduates of the school have been accepted at prestigious and advanced universities such as medical, pharmaceutical, dentistry and engineering schools.DRF also provides funding for Al-Mashariq Junior high with 83 students starting in 2020.DRF offers grants for student loans. These loans are offered to outstanding low-income students to pursue their higher education at professional universities in majors such as pharmacy, dentistry, medicine and engineering. Students repay the loans to DRF-Iraq when they graduate and get a job. The funds available after repaying the loans will be used for loans again.THE DRF BOARD APPROVED SUPPORT FOR ARK ACADEMY IN ARIVNE CALIFORNIA TO BE ESTABLISHED.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 73
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
  • Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $837K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.