Rahbar Foundation Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473795704
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Princeton Junction, NJ, United States
- Phone
- +92 321 842 3755
- Rating
- 20
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $302,745
- Expenses
- $188,449
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Providing humanitarian aid and medical relief to underserved communities globally, with a focus on health, clean water, and poverty alleviation.
Rahbar Foundation Trust is a humanitarian charity operating in the United States, United Kingdom, and Pakistan, dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty through health and education initiatives. Founded in 1995, the organization provides free medical care, cataract surgeries, cardiac stent procedures, clean water filtration plants, and supports refugee camps in Jordan with schools and restroom facilities. Their work spans remote villages in Pakistan, Gambia, and Syria, emphasizing 100% of donations going directly to programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The foundation carried out 100% of its reported charitable disbursements directly.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing does not identify all grant recipients.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 0
- Transparency: 0
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Scored; rating input score 0
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: Limited
Details
- What they fund: 14 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 12 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: Filed investments detail
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency: Grant recipient disclosure scored 0/100.