Maryland · Nonprofit
HUMANITY FIRST USA
HUMANITY FIRST USA (Maryland) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,694,567 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($640,077). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Humanity First USA does
Mission
Humanity first's mission is to relieve suffering caused by natural disasters or human conflict, promote peace and understanding, and strengthen people's capacity to help themselves.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Guatemala hospital - operation of a hospital in guatemala
$2,970,700 spent$2,714,208 earned by the program56% of program spendingHuman development - vocational school - funded school in liberia to teach technical skills such as construction, plumbing, electrician, etc. Computer school - support computer school in mali. Medical clinics - continued to fund medical clinics including in mali and tanzania. Hospital - funded construction of hospital in ivory coast. Sewing center - continued to support sewing centers in different countries. Medical training mission - these missions are organized with medical staff volunteers who visit remote areas, along with medical supplies and equipment; serve as many people who are in immediate need of medical treatments as possible and train local healthcare providers. Our kids our future - seek to help the most underserved school districts across the country by engaging local volunteers and providing critical materials and services to schools. Primary schools and related projects - fund primary schools in haiti, mali, burkina faso, malaysia, guatemala as well as builded/expanded new schools in mali, burkina faso. Feeding programs in various countries including tanzania, liberia, burkina faso, mali, malaysia, indonesia. Orphan care - provide educational support, clothing,…
$1,277,589 spentof which $1,080,325 as grants24% of program spendingFeed the hungry program - reduce hunger and wastage of food to make america hunger free.
$532,315 spentof which $132,420 as grants10% of program spendingDisaster relief
$375,645 spentof which $300,365 as grants7% of program spendingWater for life
$145,538 spentof which $140,750 as grants3% of program spendingGift of sight
$37,133 spentof which $37,135 as grants1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,338,920.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.0M to $3.3M (+225%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of HUMANITY FIRST USA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Munum A Naeem
Chairman & executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $76k → $163k.
14 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HUMANITY FIRST USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
HUMANITY FIRST USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 HUMANITY FIRST USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 90% · 2019 33% · 2020 28% · 2021 65% · 2022 61% · 2023 41% — 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
29% of HUMANITY FIRST USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
92% of HUMANITY FIRST USA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $140k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
HUMANITY FIRST USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HUMANITY FIRST USA
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.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hf Healthcare Services L3c · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMANITY FIRST USA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANITY FIRST USA?
- HUMANITY FIRST USA (Maryland) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,694,567 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($640,077). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUMANITY FIRST USA have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $1,694,567 in grants to HUMANITY FIRST USA, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANITY FIRST USA?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $640,077 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANITY FIRST USA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 48 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