Directconnect Humanitarian Aid Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383424706
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
Bellevue, MI, USA
Phone
2699869578
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$333,133
Expenses
$339,597
Assets
$55,005
Liabilities
$639

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVEN DOTY (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEVEN DOTY (PRESIDENT): $22,283 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 provide food, clothing, medicine, supplies, equipment and minor construction to countries throughout the world, including the united states. To provide funds to individuals and/or institutions for educational purposes or supplies to fulfill educational opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide humanitarian assistance around the world. Food, medical equipment, wheelchairs and educational opportunities have been provided to the people of kosovo, belarus and vietnam. We provided food for children and medical care for severe cases and we provided personal protection equipment. In myanmar we provided medicines urgently needed to a rural medical clinic. We provide food baskets and essentials to poor in vietnam, belarus, kosovo and ukraine. We provide food as well as financial support for medical surgery to multiple cancer patients in togo, africa. We provided financial support for minor construction project in vietnam to install multiple windows in a workshop for the blind. Multiple house repairs for homes in belarus. Repairs for school in togo, africa. Repairs for homes and local buildings in a couple villages due to typhoon in myanmar.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 80% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.6%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $38.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Pass
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 48%; rating input score 48; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.6% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $308K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $22K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.