Handicap International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
550914744
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Phone
3018912138
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,320,691
Expenses
$51,532,962
Assets
$21,810,476
Liabilities
$21,090,711

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NANCY KELLY (PRESIDENT)
  • TONY SEARING (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JEFF MEER (EXEC. DIRECTOR (UNTIL 05/24)): $217,372 total reported compensation
  • KELLEY SKELTON (INT. ED & DIR. OF FIN (05/24-11/24)): $146,625 total reported compensation
  • HANNAH GUEDENET (EXEC. DIRECTOR (START 11/24)): $22,985 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

What it reported doing in 2024

Disability rights and inclusion: working alongside people with disabilities, humanity & inclusion (hi) advocates for their access to all aspects of social life, including education, decent, waged employment, community activities and more. Critical work to strengthen the capacity of organizations of persons with disabilities, and to organize around effective policies to see their rights upheld. Accounting for 31% of funds raised by hi-us in 2024, this work happens at the local level all the way up to government legislation and international advocacy. Projects in places like madagascar and nepal helped children thrive at accessible and inclusive schools. In iraq, hi trained 43 women with disabilities on leadership, human rights and political participation, community mobilization, and media engagement. In countries like jordan and democratic republic of the congo (drc), hi's economic inclusion activities aimed to help persons with disabilities become financially self-sufficient, through vocational training and community-based groups. In jordan, 24 people enrolled in and completed vocational training courses such as tailoring, phone maintenance, and hair dressing. From the course, two participants even took the initiative to start their own businesses. In drc, hi supports saving and internal learning communities to bolster financial literacy of participants with low spending power and uses monitoring tools to ensure groups are inclusive of persons with disabilities. In kenya, the "inbusiness" project helped to train and empower almost 1,200 micro-entrepreneurs living in the kakuma refugee camp and surrounding communities. The participants were given support to define their businesses and training to improve their sales, budgetary and marketing skills.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 78
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $111.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Pass
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.97; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $49.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $217K · 11 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.