Gaza Soup Kitchen

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
994047997
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Hamtrack, MI, USA
Phone
8013103108
Rating
52
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,744,002
Expenses
$424,076
Assets
$1,320,427
Liabilities
$501

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • HANI ALMADHOUN (TREASURER)
  • RIBHI HAZIN (BOARD MEMBER)
  • ROA ALHELOU (CHAIR)

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

Gaza soup kitchen is dedicated to alleviating food and water insecurity and providing essential support services to vulnerable populations across the gaza strip in palestine.

What it reported doing in 2024

Essential hot meals program purpose: responding to severe humanitarian conditions affecting vulnerable populations in the gaza strip. Operations: 1. Multi-site meal program across 5 major locations: gaza city, khan younis, north gaza, beach camp, sheikh radwan, and surrounding areas. 2. No volunteers participated in food preparation or distribution. 3. Each location utilized approximately 4 individual service providers plus 1 photographer, totaling around 20-25 paid individual service providers across the 5 sites. 4. Individual service providers were up to 30 workers who rotated across programs based on operational needs. Reach & flexibility: geographic spread allows the organization to serve diverse communities and respond to rapidly changing needs. Program focus: prepares and distributes hot meals and food parcels, delivered on-site or to hospitals for medical staff and patients. Scale: served an estimated 300 families per location daily. Priority populations: children, the elderly, and female-headed households most affected by the crisis. Impact: provides not only nutrition but also critical support, dignity, and hope to communities in extraordinary hardship.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.2%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • 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: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 75.7%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.2% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $418K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 24/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.