United Hands Relief
Legal name: United Hands Relief Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812039508
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Arlington, TX, United States
- Phone
- 6825974381
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,149,031
- Expenses
- $23,697,178
- Assets
- $12,807,760
- Liabilities
- $45,475
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Suleiman Alghanem (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Suleiman Alghanem (President & CEO): $121,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
United Hands Relief (UHR) provides emergency aid and fosters sustainable development for communities in crisis, delivering food, shelter, healthcare, and education while empowering children and vulnerable groups to overcome hardship—regardless of race, nationality, or religion. United Hands Relief (UHR) provides emergency aid and fosters sustainable development for communities in crisis. We deliver food, shelter, healthcare, and education, while empowering children, families, and vulnerable groups to overcome hardship—regardless of race, nationality, or religion. UHR Community Outreach DFW. United Hands Relief Compassionate relief and sustainable development for those most in need. United Hands Relief (UHR) is a nonprofit humanitarian and development organization headquartered in Arlington, Texas. Guided by compassion and inclusivity, UHR serves people whose basic needs for food...
What it reported doing in 2024
Medical supplies, food, drinking water to MidleEasterns, South Asia and North Africa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 98% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 51.9%; rating input score 52; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported · 2 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.