Foundation for Mauritanian Relief and Development
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811269910
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Hayward, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5102466222
- Rating
- 31
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $228,490
- Expenses
- $217,212
- Assets
- $41,214
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAVEED DASTAGIR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- IKHLAUS AHMED (SECRETARY)
- NAVEED DASTAGIR (PRESIDENT)
- BEYAN WASHINGTON (TREASURER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Foundation for mauritanian relief and development is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. The specific purpose of underprivileged children and community members in the country of mauritania.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program service accomplishments transportation to and from school, and boarding. We will also assist these underprivileged children in obtaining the necessary medical care to which they are deprived by providing them with transportation to medical care facilities, paying necessary medical expenses, and ensuring they receive the care they desperately need. To accomplish our goals and implement this program, our directors will travel to mauritania once per year and spend approximately four 4 months on the ground working together and with volunteers. We anticipate donating the collected supplies once per fiscal quarter, or more if our resources allow and while on the ground, we will consistently continue to assess the needs of the children and their families, including their psychological, medical, and nutritional needs and their need for clean clothes and other necessities to determine how we can best support them moving forward. Beneficial sustainable infrastructure the purpose of this program is to engage in human
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - Revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 48
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.