Educational Charitable and Humanitarian
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710913828
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088394662
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $754,175
- Expenses
- $497,593
- Assets
- $827,283
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALIYA SHAFQUAT (PRESIDENT)
- MONOWAR KHAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALIYA SHAFQUAT (PRESIDENT)
- MUHAMMAD Q ZAMAN (TREASURER)
- MARUF MOHAMMAD (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help educate people in developing countries through vocational training, provide starving people with food, clothing and healthcare and to help disadvantaged people with training and resources in order to make them self-reliant.
What it reported doing in 2024
Achievements: echo assisted in setting up four skill development centers in dhaka, chittagong, rangpur and jessore to provide technical training in computer skills, electricl wiring, driving, heating ventillation and air-conditioning, sewing, knitting and embroidery. Echo also performed computer graphics design and online digital marketing training program in association with muslim aid bangladesh.echo has constructed a state-of-the-art orphanage in ashulia, dhaka, bangladesh to give housing to 60 girls whose mother died. Echo has also built a building in l-shaped form to provide education to these girls. These girls are being treated as our own children in terms of food, clothing, education and health care. The girls are doing great in domestic and international competitive tests and various competition. Future goals: 1. Echo is dedicated to alleviate poverty in bangladesh and other developing countries. The donation it raises from individuals throughout the silicon valley and the USA funds its charitable and humanitarian projects in bangladesh and other countries of the world. Echo has focused in improving the lives of poor and disadvantaged people through education, vocational training, healthcare, sanitation, and self-reliance programs
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 99% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 76th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 34%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.9% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $452K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.