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ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL

ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL (Maryland) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,849,475 to it, the largest being WINIFRED STEVENS FOUNDATION ($3,720,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$76M
Funders on record
74
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$71M
45/74 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Adventist Development & Relief Agency International does

Mission

See schedule othe adventist development and relief agency (adra) international works in more than 120 countries with millions of people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change through empowering partnerships and responsible action. Adra collaborates with communities, organizations, and governments to improve quality of life by providing access to food, clean drinking water, agricultural assistance, basic health care and disease prevention, education, micro-credits, vocational training, and emergency relief. Adra initiatives develop human capacity, increase self-reliance, meet chronic needs, and empower communities to survive crisis. Adra emphasizes sustainable, community-based programs that improve access to services for women and children and involve local participation in planning implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Government grants: adra international has over 13 grants and cooperative agreements in over 12 countries. The awards are mainly for food security, health, and multi-sector emergency response projects. Food security grants address the causes of food insecurity to vulnerable groups in targeted countries, addressing availability, access, and utilization of food. Health projects use a holistic approach and focus on improving access to quality healthcare in vulnerable communities by supporting health systems, promoting preventive care, and responding to urgent medical needs. Health projects are a guiding factor enabling healthier lifestyle choices. (continued on schedule o) nutrition interventions focus on improving the nutrition status of children under five and their caretakers, and wash activities aim to improve access to safe water and the sanitation conditions of the target population.

    $41,561,102 spentof which $32,429,266 as grants
    73% of program spending
  2. Donated materials: adra supplied twenty four (24) shipments of donated materials to drc containing 5,540 mt of corn meal, beans and vegetable oil worth over $4.3 million in one (1) country in 2025 which includes freight of cost of $1.1 million.

    $5,470,572 spentof which $5,470,572 as grants
    10% of program spending
  3. Grants-other: adra international has 20 non-governmental grants in 11 countries. The awards are comprised mainly of food and food security, health and wash, infrastructure, and education projects. Food projects supply meals for those in need of a warm meal. Food security projects address the lack of food or the causes of food insecurity to vulnerable groups in targeted countries, addressing availability, access, and utilization of food. Health projects give access to health clinics (medical and nutritional treatment, psychosocial care, and health promotion workshops). Wash projects give access to safe water and the sanitation conditions of target populations. (continued on schedule o)infrastructure projects help with the construction of critical stone roads and retaining walls to protect agricultural lands and communities from erosion. Education projects help with vocational skills, digital communication, and marketing and how to integrate into the labor market.

    $4,816,107 spentof which $4,437,509 as grants
    9% of program spending
  4. Development and relief projects, disaster assistance funding and grant match: adra international supported projects in over 56 countries. Projects included emergency management of disaster relief and long-term recovery. Economic development projects are aimed to improve the quality of life for recipients (both men and women). Food security projects include famine relief and short-term needs from displacement. Long term projects include the sectors of water, sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition, agriculture, livelihoods, and economic growth. These needs are addressed with agricultural projects and training the recipients in various skills. Adra supports basic education in various skills. Adra supports basic education, for both children and adults in literacy and vocational skills. Adra promotes primary health with access, as well as training for community care.adra held conferences and summits throughout the year for network strengthening and support which rendered revenue of $207,246. Adra maintains and manages the adra network accounting system which rendered revenue of $109,655. Other revenue of $123,740 was received from miscellaneous activities.

    $4,227,771 spentof which $4,227,771 as grants$475,609 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  5. Social enterprise: goodone global llc, an entity under adra international, has been dedicated to enhancing local economies since its inception in 2024. This organization supports farmers by providing agricultural inputs and ensuring market access, particularly in ghana where it has been purchasing and processing cashews according to fda standards. This initiative has supported over 1,000 farmers and created more than 60 jobs, keeping significant income within the country. Goodone global also focuses on rebalancing the value chain through local processing to maximize returns and has started sourcing cocoa beans from the solomon islands for the new zealand market. Their mission emphasizes fostering lasting change in vulnerable communities by blending humanitarian service with strategic business practices.

    $547,003 spent$-80,225 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,622,555.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($55M) Expenses 100 ($58M) Net assets 100 ($55M)2018 Revenue 116 ($64M) Expenses 116 ($68M) Net assets 87 ($48M)2019 Revenue 158 ($87M) Expenses 144 ($84M) Net assets 101 ($55M)2020 Revenue 222 ($121M) Expenses 209 ($121M) Net assets 100 ($55M)2021 Revenue 245 ($134M) Expenses 214 ($124M) Net assets 125 ($69M)2022 Revenue 222 ($121M) Expenses 193 ($112M) Net assets 125 ($69M)2023 Revenue 177 ($96M) Expenses 177 ($103M) Net assets 123 ($67M)2024 Revenue 217 ($119M) Expenses 204 ($119M) Net assets 129 ($70M)2025 Revenue 139 ($76M) Expenses 139 ($81M) Net assets 130 ($71M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (139)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $58M to $72M (+25%).

$64M
$58M
$72M
$85M
$94M
$95M
$83M
$85M
$82M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 42% · 2018 57% · 2019 65% · 2020 68% · 2021 69% · 2022 64% · 2023 65% · 2024 63% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 391 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3.5M
’17
−$4.0M
’18
$2.6M
’19
−$362k
’20
$9.4M
’21
$9.2M
’22
−$6.6M
’23
$7k
’24
−$4.7M
’25
1.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Geoffrey Mbwana

Board chair/ board member

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed545754555866565365
Joined·+13+11+5+8+19+6+5+19
No longer listed·101445111687
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $136k → $1.2M.

19 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Adventist Health SystemWest). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL raised.

From the IRS filings of ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL.

31%
largest funder
52%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 76% · 2019 66% · 2020 58% · 2021 38% · 2022 40% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

32% of ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 27 states in all.

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $383.3M on record.

Federal$383.3M
grants $383.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Agency for International Development$382.3M
  • Department of State$1.0M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 26%Fundraising 4%

Governance

47
board members
79%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 38 states

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Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Goodone Global LLC · disregarded
  • The General Conference Corporation of Seventh Day Adventist · exempt
  • Goodone Foods Nz Limited · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL?
ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL (Maryland) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,849,475 to it, the largest being WINIFRED STEVENS FOUNDATION ($3,720,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $11,849,475 in grants to ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL?
WINIFRED STEVENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 74 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing