Human Appeal
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872410117
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Mission Viejo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9498762957
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,510,010
- Expenses
- $28,590,228
- Assets
- $14,074,685
- Liabilities
- $1,650,414
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MOHAMED FATHY ASHMAWEY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MOHAMED FATHY ASHMAWEY (CEO): $204,405 total reported compensation
- FARIBA LUDIN (SECRETARY/ EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT): $50,136 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission We save lives, alleviate poverty, empower local communities whilst championing humanity, and neutrality. We save lives, alleviate poverty, empower local communities whilst championing humanity, and neutrality. Our values. Today, we operate as a large family of over **173** staff within the UK, over **100** staff in our international offices, and **887** volunteers working with us to achieve one goal: a more just and compassionate world. For over **33** years, our goal has been to be part of the positive change we aspire to see in the world. We dream of a world free of poverty and hunger, where justice and compassion prevail, where no human being remains homeless, no child uneducated, and no patient untreated. Human Appeal is a non-profit humanitarian organization that helps those in need regardless of race, religion or gender. Our areas of work include:.
What it reported doing in 2024
Various projects have been funded, please visit https://humanappealusa.org for complete list.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 69.1%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 37th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 19.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 126.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 98.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 95.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 69.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported · 4 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $204K · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.