Human Development Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922204466
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Canton, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8006149560
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,006,950
- Expenses
- $11,441,175
- Assets
- $22,013,883
- Liabilities
- $128,877
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ABDIRAHMAN KARIYE (CHEIF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $137,472 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
HDF exists to end the cycle of crisis and poverty. Through humanitarian relief, development, and education, we strengthen the systems and leaders that move communities from survival toward self-reliance. Your faithful monthly support does more than sustain our mission, it unlocks _an accumulating cascade of blessings_. With each giving level, you’ll receive **both the new reward and all previous gifts** , symbolizing how your growing impact ripples outward. Prayer mat. Compassion meets action in every life we touch, whether we’re delivering emergency medical aid to displaced families or installing clean-water systems in remote villages Our mission HDF exists to end the cycle of crisis and poverty. Through humanitarian relief, development, and education, we strengthen the systems and leaders that move communities from survival to self-reliance.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support orphaned children with food, education, healthcare, and protective services; allocate zakat funds in accordance with islamic principles to aid vulnarable populations; and deliver health and nutration programs including medical services, mibile clinics, and interventions to improve public health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.2%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- 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: 86.4%; rating input score 86; 18th 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: 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 65.3%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 172.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 187.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 194.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 25.2% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 35 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- 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.