Heal Palestine Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882454707
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Kent, OH, USA
Phone
3306712143
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief
Affiliation
Islam

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,307,268
Expenses
$8,166,276
Assets
$12,506,983
Liabilities
$365,991

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • STEVE SOSEBEE (Executive Dir.): $175,836 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Heal palestine is a u.s. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the well-being of children and youth in palestine through programs in health, education humnitarian aid, and leadership development. The organization supports medical care, mental health, and rehabilitation services, expands educations opportunities, provides essential relief for familieis facing hardship, and offers youth-focused initiatives that build skills, resilience, and community engagement. Together, these programs advance heals mission to support the long-term stability and development of palestinian children and their communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Humanitarian Aid Program - Expenses Total $2,419,047 - In 2024, the Organization operated an extensive humanitarian aid program in Gaza to address the urgent needs arising from widespread disruption to basic services and living conditions. Program funds were used to provide direct assistance in the form of food, shelter, clothing, hygiene items, medicine, and psychosocial support, for children and their families. The Organization supported multiple community food kitchens that prepared and distributed cooked meals daily to displaced families living in overcrowded shelters and temporary encampments. The program also provided emergency shelter support, including tents, bedding, and basic household supplies, to families who had lost their homes. In addition, The Organization conducted large scale distributions of clothing, hygiene kits, and essential medications, helping ensure that vulnerable children received the basic necessities required for their health, safety and dignity. Recognizing the severe emotional toll of displacement and violence on children, the Organization also organized social, recreational, and structured psychosocial activities that offered safe spaces for play, learning, and emotional recovery.Through these combined efforts, the Organization delivered humanitarian assistance to over 500,000 children and families in 2024, including populations with limited access to basic services and constrained humanitarian access. All activities were conducted for charitable purposes and focused exclusively on meeting immediate humanitarian and child-focused needs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 35.3%; rating input score 35
  • Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $34.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: 59.8%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

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

Details

  • Where the money goes: 35.3% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $176K · 7 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 1 filing year from 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.