Direct Relief International
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| Direct Relief International 27 S. La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93117 | ||
| Web Site | http://www.directrelief.org/ | |
| Founded | 1948 | |
| IRS Status | 501(c)(3) since 1949 | |
| EIN | 95-1831116 | |
| Links | Give.org | http://charityreports.give.org/Public/Report.aspx?CharityID=307 |
| Charity Navigator | http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3626 | |
| Guidestar | http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?userHomePage=false&npoId=2490 | |
| This entry up-to-date as of 2006-11-24 | ||
Contents |
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Financial Questionnaire
| Direct Relief International | ||
| Summary | Net assets (990 line 21) | 43,409,617 USD |
| Total revenue (990 line 12) | 136,271,810 USD | |
| Total expenses (990 line 17) | 209,525,586 USD | |
| Expenses | Program expenses (990 line 13) | 207,943,743 USD |
| Mgmt. and general expenses (990 line 14) | 988,093 USD | |
| Fundraising expenses (990 line 15) | 593,750 USD | |
| Compensation | CEO or highest paid employee | Christian White, Controller |
| Compensation (990 Part V column C) | 110,417 USD | |
| Additional compensation (990 Part V columns D and E) | 8,494 USD | |
| Total compensation | 118,911 USD | |
| Sources: [1] | ||
| For fiscal year ended 2006-3-31 | ||
| This entry up-to-date as of 2006-11-24 | ||
Growth Questionnaire
| Direct Relief International | |
|---|---|
| IRS Form 990 Year | Total Expenses (from line 17) |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | 209,525,586 USD |
| 2004 | 127,033,365 USD |
| 2003 | 96,499,697 USD |
| 2002 | 70,327,498 USD |
| 2001 | 84,334,899 USD |
| Sources: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] | |
Geography Questionnaire
| Direct Relief International | ||
|---|---|---|
| Country | Expenses | Description |
| United States | $32,305,504 in the United States | Money that was spent on salaries for people who live and work in the US, and for office space, supplies, computers, etc. If this information is not available on the organization's web site, as an approximation we've been using numbers from Form 990: (line 44(A)) minus (line 22(A)) |
| Abroad |
$2,757,683 in Afghanistan
$431,321 in Bangladesh
$223,255 in Bolivia
$62,750 in Burundi
$211,006 in Cambodia
$4,466,633 in Cameroon
$49,058 in China
$1,069,410 in Congo, D.R.
$3,291,241 in Dominican Republic
$28,835 in Ecuador
$4,696,440 in El Salvador
$4,823,202 in Estonia
$369,482 in Ethiopia
$94,338 in Fiji
$547,691 in Ghana
$2,032,087 in Grenada
$10,762,122 in Guatemala
$6,739,809 in Guyana
$14,805,366 in Haiti
$7,228,632 in Honduras
$19,881,325 in India
$4,523,924 in Indonesia
$3,408,815 in Iraq
$10,027,949 in Jamaica
$174,890 in Kenya
$553,823 in Laos
$4,713,824 in Liberia
$2,296,775 in Malawi
$360,855 in Mexico
$38,754 in Nepal
$8,476,720 in Nicaragua
$291,488 in Niger
$103,990 in Nigeria
$8,213,931 in Pakistan
$368,293 in Papau New Guinea
$3,518,459 in Peru
$89,288 in Phillipines
$3,594,863 in Romania
$134,500 in Russia
$32,778 in Senegal
$601,896 in Sierra Leone
$3,195,955 in Somalia
$1,835 in South Africa
$10,820 in South Korea
$205,913 in Sri Lanka
$807,803 in Sudan
$5,980,082 in Tanzania
$36,825 in Thailand
$818,316 in Trinidad and Tobago
$2,211,184 in Uganda
$52,126 in Ukraine
$17,529 in Venezuela
$942,247 in West Bank/Gaza
$4,245,726 in Zambia
$2,188,591 in Zimbabwe
| A breakdown, by country or region, of the money that was spent abroad, or was spent in the US for goods that were shipped abroad. If this information is not available on the organization's web site, as an approximation we've been using the number from Form 990 line 22(A) |
| Total | $189,117,957 | from Form 990 line 44(A) |
| Sources: [7] | ||
| This entry up-to-date as of 2006-11-29 | ||
Health Outcomes Questionnaire
Transparency Questionnaire
| Direct Relief International | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic website content | Does the website include: | Yes/No (source) | |
| 1 | the name and address of the organization? | every page | |
| 2 | phone numbers and email addresses for the organization? | every page | |
| 3 | background about the mission and goals of the organization? | yes [8] | |
| 4 | descriptions of the organization's projects? | yes [9] | |
| People | Does the website include: | ||
| 5 | a list of the people serving on the Board of Directors? (on the website itself, rather than in a form 990) | yes [10] | |
| 6 | a list of the officers of the organization? (on the website itself, rather than in a form 990) | yes [11] | |
| 7 | a list of all of the employees? (extra credit if the site also lists volunteers, like this Apache Foundation list does) | yes [12] | |
| 8 | a list of consultants and contractors? (on the website itself, rather than in a form 990) | no | |
| 9 | photos and short bios of the people who do work for the organization? (like these pages for the Adelante Foundation board and staff, or this Open Source Applications Foundation staff page) | selected [13] | |
| Accounting | Does the website include: | ||
| 10 | copies of organization's IRS Form 990, if the organization is based in the US? (extra credit if the form is a .pdf file with selectable text that you can copy-and-paste, like the Amnesty Internationl form, rather than just a scanned copy, like this one, and extra credit for including copies from several previous years, like the Adelante Foundation does, rather than just a single year) | yes [14] including several past years | |
| 11 | annual financial summaries? (simple one page summaries, as are typically found in pdf-file annual reports, like this one) | yes [15] | |
| 12 | annual reports of the assets and investments held by the organization, listing individual securities held? (for example, to enable volunteers to look for problem investments like these Gates Foundation investments) | no | |
| 13 | detailed financial transaction logs, showing the dates and amounts for individual payments made by the organization? (for example, the MetaBrainz Foundation posts monthly transaction logs, showing minutiae like monthly rent payments and a payment of $18.63 to the USPS on 1/9/2006) | no | |
| 14 | Does the website offer links to the websites of any other organizations that receive grants from this organization, and links to the websites of any organizations that provide services that this organization pays for? | no | |
| Meeting notes | Does the website include: | ||
| 15 | copies of meeting agendas and meeting minutes for all meetings of the Board of Directors? (for example, like these Apache Foundation meeting notes or these Transparency International meeting summaries) | no | |
| 16 | copies of meeting agendas and meeting minutes for all of the "all hands" or general staff meetings? (for example, the Open Source Applications Foundation posts notes from most of their weekly staff meetings) | no | |
| 17 | copies of meeting agendas and meeting minutes for department-level staff meetings? (for example, the Dojo Foundation often posts agendas and transcripts from meetings, like these and these) | no | |
| Public collaboration | |||
| 18 | Can the general public subscribe to any mailing lists about the organization's work, and post messages to those mailing lists? (for example, the Mozilla Foundation provides dozens of different mailing lists) | no | |
| 19 | Can the general public add content to the site, post messages, and attach comments to the material published by the organization itself? (for example, the entire Wikimedia Foundation web site is a wiki, which outsiders to contribute to or discuss the content on any page) | no | |
| 20 | Does the website allow outside volunteers to do real work for the organization, beyond just fundraising and activism (letter writing, etc.), by signing up for tasks listed on the site and then doing the work and possibly delivering a finished work product to the site? (for example, the Mozilla Foundation offers lots of different ways for volunteers to get involved) | volunteer [16] donate supplies [17] | |
| 21 | Can the general public stay abreast of changes to the website by subscribing to an RSS feed of all changes? (for example, the OSAF wiki provides an RSS feed for all changes to the site, and RSS feeds for changes to any single page) | no | |
| Work product | |||
| 22 | Does the website include copies of all the finished reports and publications written by staff members? | some [18] | |
| 23 | Does the website include copies of the unfinished day-to-day documents developed by the organization (working notes, drafts, spreadsheets, to-do lists, brochures, software, patents, etc.)? (for example, the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) website includes a great deal of their day-to-day work products) | no | |
| 24 | If the website does include day-to-day work, are most of the documents available in open-standard file formats that almost anybody with a computer can read, rather than proprietary formats? For example, is the content available in formats like .html and .txt, rather than formats like Word .doc and Excel .xls? (like, for example, the OSAF wiki content) | no | |
| 25 | Are most of the documents on the website available under some sort of "open content" license (such as a Creative Commons license) that allows the public to re-use the work? (like, for example, the OSAF work products) | no | |
| 26 | Does the website offer a fossil record of historical documents? Is it the case that if a document was ever posted to the website, then it will still be publicly available somewhere in the website's "graveyard" or "attic" space, and still available at its original URL? For living documents or web pages that change over time, is it always possible to see all the earlier versions of the documents? | no | |
| Governance | Does the website include: | ||
| 27 | a copy of the organization's bylaws or articles of incorporation? (like the Wikimedia Foundation bylaws, the Google Foundation Articles of Incorporation, or the Transparency International Charter) | yes [19] [20] | |
| 28 | a copy of the organization's policy on equal opportunity employment? (the policy itself, not just a blurb on the site stating that the the organization is an equal opportunity employer -- for example, like Stanford University's employment policies) | no | |
| 29 | copies of any of the other official written policies of the organization? (for example, like Transparency International's posted policies on board conduct, conflict of interest, accreditation, donations, etc.) | no | |
| 30 | a privacy policy that details what types of information the organization will strive to keep from publicly disclosing (for example, employee health records or employee performance evaluations)? (note: this question is not asking for a web site privacy policy, but rather for a policy that guides the organization as a whole) | no | |
| 31 | a transparency policy that details what types of information the organization will strive to always publicly disclose (for example, meeting minutes from board meetings)? | no | |
| 32 | copies of the major legal agreements entered into by the organization (including leases, service agreements, etc.)? | no | |
| This entry up-to-date as of 2006-12-5 | |||
