United Mission For Relief & Development (UMR)
Legal name: United Mission For Relief & Development
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273175543
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- McLean, VA, USA
- Phone
- (202) 370-6963
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,888,609
- Expenses
- $150,339,501
- Assets
- $2,040,833
- Liabilities
- $822,705
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Abed Ayoub (CEO and President)
Highest reported compensation
- Abed Ayoub (CEO and President): $365,976 total reported compensation
- Muhieldin Salih (COO and Treasurer): $211,235 total reported compensation
- Dr Khaled Falah (Chief Information Officer (CIO)): $119,020 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 Mission for Relief & Development (UMR) is a registered 501(c)(3) focused on providing disaster relief and recovery services to the underserved both domestically in the U.S. and internationally across the globe. United Mission for Relief & Development (UMR) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on providing disaster relief and recovery services to the underserved both domestically in the U.S. We hope you’ll join us in our efforts to make a significant impact in the lives of millions around the world. Our Mission. Board Member Hon. Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi is a distinguished public servant, development leader, and humanitarian professional with over two decades of experience in government, international development, and civil society leadership. He currently serves as the Non-Executive Chairperson of the Board of Directors of...
What it reported doing in 2024
Health Services and Nutrition: In 2024, UMR scaled its global health programs to reach vulnerable populations in conflict and disaster zones. In Gaza, UMR supported medical centers and provided essential medicines to major hospitals. In Yemen and Sudan, UMR supplied medicines health facilities and supported the treatment of malnourished children through CMAM programs. In Jordan, UMR provided chronic care and kidney dialysis support to hundreds of refugee patients and led medical missions in collaboration with IMANA, offering free specialized surgeries and consultations. Across all programs, UMR integrated nutrition services for pregnant and lactating women, with a focus on maternal and child health, in partnership with UNICEF and MOH. individuals with hearing impairments. Through UMRs strengthened health systems, we supported health facilities and equipment in Turkey, Libya, Uganda, and Yemen. Moreover, UMR launched a comprehensive nutritional program focused on children and pregnant or lactating women in Yemen and Kenya, targeting thousands of the most vulnerable groups in partnership with the Ministry of Health, nutrition cluster, and UNICEF.
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 99% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $54.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- 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: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $146.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $366K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 39 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 10 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.