Haiti Rehabilitation Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471919844
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Hamilton, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6468338413
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $401,072
- Expenses
- $433,243
- Assets
- $329,540
- Liabilities
- $6,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RENEE BROWN PT PHD (PRESIDENT)
- ZARA HARRIS MSOT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVID MERLO MS COTAL CPRP (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RENEE BROWN PT PHD (PRESIDENT)
- ZARA HARRIS MSOT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CATHERINE FEINTUCH PHD (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Haiti rehabilitation foundation (hrf) is a non-profit organization that was founded to support the education of haitians who want to become occupational or physical therapists. Hrf is the primary support for the first and only school in haiti with four-year degree programs in both ot and pt.
What it reported doing in 2025
Haiti rehabilitation foundation (hrf) supports the development of rehabilitation education and services in haiti by assisting haitianled institutions with financial resources, operational support, educational materials, and strategic guidance. Hrf helps strengthen academic programs, promotes professional development for rehabilitation practitioners, and mobilizes volunteers, equipment, and partnerships to expand access to highquality physical and occupational therapy across the country.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $724.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st 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; 64th 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $386K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 17 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.