Human Appeal Inc
EIN 872410117 · Mission Viejo, CA · — · national-relief
Address26050 ACCERO, Mission Viejo, CA 92691-0000
Mission · 990 Part I
“HUMAN APPEAL IS A NO PROFIT ORGANIZATION WORKING ACROSS THE GLOBE TO STRENGTHEN HUMANITY'S FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY, SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND NATURAL DISASTER. THROUGH THE PROVISION OF IMMEDIATE RELIEF AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SELF-SUSTAINING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.”
The IRS Form 990 for FY 2024 is due ~Nov 15 of the year after the fiscal close, followed by 3–6 months of IRS processing and 6–12 months before the cleaned data is published. FY 2024 should begin appearing here around mid-to-late 2025. A gap between today and the latest filing does not mean the org hasn't filed.
▸Additional financials & ratios
- High fundraising-cost ratio (38.1% of expenses)
- Single contractor > 10% of program spend
Attestations & Audits
Org-supplied disclosures that have been verified by the Ihsan Standard Editorial Council. Every standard has a Gold tier (★) reached via an Ihsan Standard or accepted third-party audit. An empty section means the org has not yet filled it in — not that they fail the standard.
- Zakat methodology disclosurenot yet attested
- Zakāt al-Fitr timeline commitmentnot yet attested
- Qurbānī / Udhiya timeline enforcementnot yet attested
- Kaffāra fulfillment commitmentnot yet attested
- Annual zakat distribution reportnot yet attested
- Orphan-fund segregation (Qurʾānic amāna)not yet attested
- Restricted-purpose fund segregation (honoring the amāna)not yet attested
- Per-donation tracking & fulfillmentnot yet attested
- Supplier-stack cleanup plan filednot yet attested
- Full supplier-stack audit completednot yet attested
- Taʿāwun Procurement Audit — Muslim community vendor pledgenot yet attested
- Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ Environmental Stewardship Auditnot yet attested
Where the money went · FY 2023
Form 990 Part IX (Statement of Functional Expenses) split into the four functional buckets, plus automated anomaly detection across the most-asked donor questions.
Expense breakdown · FY 2023
Total $28.46MForm 990 Part IX (Statement of Functional Expenses) — how every dollar of total expenses was spent across the four functional buckets.
- Grants & assistance$15.13M · 53.1%
Form 990 Part IX lines 1 + 2. Direct grants paid to domestic & foreign orgs and individuals — the cleanest 'where the money went' line on the filing.
- Other program services$1.00M · 3.5%
Form 990 Part IX col B total minus grants. Program-staff salaries, program supplies, beneficiary services not paid as grants.
- Management & general$1.50M · 5.3%
Form 990 Part IX col C. Admin, accounting, board, governance, general overhead.
- Fundraising$10.84M · 38.1%
Form 990 Part IX col D. Donor acquisition, professional fundraisers, fundraising events, mailings.
Top independent contractors · Part VII Section B
Form 990 requires disclosure of independent contractors compensated > $100,000. Single-vendor or single-individual concentrations are surfaced because they are the most common donor-trust issue.
- Khaled Beydoun$2.04MProfessional fundraising / public engagement7.2% of total expenses · 13.5% of grants paid out
Data note: Form 990 Part IX (Statement of Functional Expenses) + Part VII Section B (independent contractors compensated > $100k). Numbers reflect public-allegations data surfaced in community reporting; ProPublica structured extract did not include full Schedule G/J detail, back-populated from the filing PDF.
Fundraising efficacy · FY 2023
How many dollars of contributions the org raises for each dollar spent on fundraising. Most useful for relief / advocacy orgs whose growth depends on active solicitation.
Every $1 of fundraising returned $2.8 in contributions. Acceptable for new orgs, capital campaigns, or donor-acquisition phases that haven't amortized yet.
Year-over-year trends · through FY 2023
Arrow color = direction × good-when-upPer-metric direction and magnitude vs. the prior fiscal year. Where the data goes back far enough, the 3-year compound annual growth rate is included — useful for separating one-off spikes from sustained trends.
- Revenue↑ 914.1% YoY$30.00Mprior: $2.96MΔ +$27.04M
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↑ 914.1% YoY$30.00Mprior: $2.96MΔ +$27.04M
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Total expenses↑ 1219.0% YoY$28.46Mprior: $2.16MΔ +$26.31M
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
- Top-officer compensation↑ 17.3% YoY$208Kprior: $177KΔ +$31K
Form 990 Part IX line 5 — aggregate compensation for officers, directors, key employees, and the five highest-paid employees. Growing in line with revenue is expected for healthy orgs; growing faster than revenue is the question worth asking.
- Total compensation & benefits↑ 220.0% YoY$566Kprior: $177KΔ +$389K
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↑ 587.5% YoY$5.50Mprior: $801KΔ +$4.70M
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↓ -47.9% YoY2.3 moprior: 4.5 moΔ −2.1 mo
Net assets ÷ (annual expenses ÷ 12). The trend matters more than the absolute number: a falling reserve year-over-year is the early warning sign of fragility, even if it's still above the 3-month floor.
Items worth a closer look
Automated checks across Form 990 Part IX and Part VII Section B. We publish the math and the source; we do not adjudicate intent. Many of these have legitimate explanations specific to the org’s mission — read each card’s context note before forming a judgment. The org has full right of reply.
Unusually high fundraising-cost ratio
38.1%Worth a closer lookIn FY 2023, fundraising expense was 38.1% of total expenses ($10.84M of $28.46M). Best-practice charity guidance treats anything above 25% as worth a closer look; above 35% is rare among healthy relief orgs.
ContextLegitimate explanations include a new-org ramp, a capital campaign in progress, or donor-acquisition investment that's expected to amortize over future years.
Source: Form 990 Part IX line 25 (total expenses) ÷ column D (fundraising column)
Fundraising expense is a large fraction of grants paid out
$0.72 : $1NotableFor every $1 in grants and assistance distributed ($15.13M), the org spent $0.72 on fundraising ($10.84M).
ContextFor pure grant-making orgs this ratio should be well under $0.20. Operating charities that grant a portion of revenue may legitimately run higher; the question worth asking is whether the next dollar raised will fund program work or more fundraising.
Source: Form 990 Part IX line 25 col D ÷ line 1+2 (grants)
Single contractor compensation: 7.2% of total expenses
$2.04MNotableKhaled Beydoun (Professional fundraising / public engagement) received $2.04M from the org in FY 2023 — 7.2% of total expenses and 13.5% of grants and assistance distributed.
ContextSingle-contractor concentrations of this size are worth the org's documented rationale: what was delivered, against which measurable goal, and how the price was benchmarked.
Source: Form 990 Part VII Section B (independent contractors > $100k)
Thin operating reserve
2.3 moNotableMonths of reserve in FY 2023: 2.3. Best-practice nonprofit governance treats 3 months as the lower bound, 6–12 months as a healthy range.
ContextThin reserves make orgs fragile to a single bad fundraising year. Pass-through grant-makers and acute-relief orgs sometimes run this tight by design.
Source: Net assets ÷ (total expenses ÷ 12)
Engagement-track path:if a specific explanation fits the org (new-org ramp, capital campaign, FQHC medical-staff payroll, multi-year grant schedule), the org can sign in, attach the supporting filing detail, and a contextual note will publish alongside the relevant card. The numbers stay — the reader gets the reasoning.
▸Multi-year history
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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $30.0M | $28.5M | $5.5M | $30.0M | $208K | $0 |
| 2022 | $3.0M | $2.2M | $801K | $3.0M | $177K | $0 |
Ethical supplier stack — strength on record
No widely-flagged vendors were detected on Human Appeal Inc's public website during our most recent scan. This covers analytics, payment, and SSO vendors visible in the rendered HTML, the donor-page network log, and the site’s DNS records — but not back-office tools (CRM, accounting, ad-tech) that don’t appear publicly. On the publicly-scannable supplier surface, Human Appeal Inc is among the cleanest in the cohort.
Even with a clean public-side stack, the Ihsan Standard engagement track offers a further audit at zero org cost during the pilot: the Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ Stewardship Audit (environmental footprint of sites and vendors). See the Attestations & Audits section above.
Method: automatic vendor detection from public website HTML — scope is limited to what the org makes visible on the site. See standards for the full vendor rubric.
Compensation history
Form 990 Part VII Section A · 2 filings on record
Every officer, director, key employee, and highest-compensated employee with reported pay. Recent year is shown by default — switch tabs for prior years or the unique-people roll-up.
FY 2023
2 paid · 0 unpaid board · total $208K| Name | Title | From org | Related orgs | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Fathy Ashmawey | Director | $164K | $0 | $0 | $164K |
| Fariba Ludin | Secretary | $43K | $0 | $0 | $43K |
Compensation detail · Schedule J
IRS Form 990 Schedule J requires officers and key employees with reportable compensation above $150,000 to break out base salary, bonuses, deferred compensation, and non-taxable benefits. From FY 2024.
| Name · title | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Benefits | Total (org) | Related orgs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MOHAMED FATHY ASHMAWEY CEO | $204K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $204K | — |
▸Verticals · detected automatically
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Verticals · detected automatically
click to expandSignals automatically extracted from public website data on https://www.humanappeal.us— please verify against the source link before relying on any single tag. “Unknown” means no evidence was found, not that the org doesn’t offer it.
In their own words · Schedule O
Supplemental narratives the org wrote on IRS Form 990 Schedule O — program-activity descriptions, governance explanations, and answers to specific 990 line items. Useful primary-source context that doesn’t fit into the structured fields elsewhere on this page.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11BFY 2024
THE TAX RETURN IS REVIEWED BY THE MANAGEMENT BEFORE FILING.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15AFY 2024
COMPENSATION FOR CEO IS APPROVED BY THE BOARD.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19FY 2024
AVAILABLE UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.