International Committee of the Red Cross
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 986001029
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Geneva, SZ
- Phone
- 4122730238
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,299,493,810
- Expenses
- $2,024,906,933
- Assets
- $2,071,429,812
- Liabilities
- $855,541,471
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
52 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GILLES CARBONNIER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MIRJANA SPOLJARIC EGGER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NILS MELZER (DIRECTOR (END 12/31/24)): $577,131 total reported compensation
- MIRJANA SPOLJARIC EGGER (PRESIDENT): $550,142 total reported compensation
- MARTIN SCHEPP (DIRECTOR (END 08/31/24)): $502,907 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 mandate and mission: Our work is based on international humanitarian law, set out in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the resolutions of the International Conferences of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. The ICRC is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization. We have a mandate to help and protect people affected by armed conflict and other violence or – as our mission statement puts it – “other situations of violence”. By “other violence” or “other situations of violence” we mean violence that has not reached the threshold of an armed conflict but is carried out by large groups and has consequences in humanitarian terms. This mandate was given to us by States through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005 and the...
What it reported doing in 2024
The icrc has four major programs: essential services (4a), protection (4b), prevention (4c) and cooperation (below). The aim of the fourth program, icrc's cooperation with national societies. (example american red cross for the USA), is two-fold: 1)to strengthen operational relationship with host national societies to improve their activities for people affected by armed conflict and 2)to strengthen their capacities overall the icrc annual report available on our website described in detail the objectives and achievements of these four programs. Here is the website for the 2024 annual report: https://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/annual-reports/ amounts reported in part iii do not match the annual report because the annual report figures include overhead, whereas the part iii figures exclude overhead.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 89% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $93.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87.3%; rating input score 87; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.5%; rating input score 90; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.8B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $577K · 52 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $20.2M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 34 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.