Michigan · Nonprofit
LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,480,882 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,491,810). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Life for Relief and Development Inc does
Mission
To alleviate human suffering, regardless of race, color, religion, or cultural background, to provide assistance to people across the globe by offering humanitarian services, such as health care and education, and to cater to casualties of social and economic turmoil
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health and safety program - medicines, medical supplies, and medical equipment are distributed to underserved hospitals and clinics around the world and to communities in areas that lack adequate health services. The hearing impaired in many countries receive hearing aids through hearing aid medical missions.
$19,842,387 spent48% of program spendingOrphans program - the orphan sponsorship program provides orphans throughout the world and the vulnerable needy families of the orphans their education, health, nutrition, shelter, and other needs.
$6,775,508 spent16% of program spendingEmergency disaster relief program - in response to areas suffering from natural or man-made disasters, the organization provides emergency humanitarian relief to those in need in the form of shelters, food, water, and urgent medical care.
$5,975,458 spent14% of program spendingEducational program - the organization promotes literacy through the distribution of books to colleges, universities, primary schools, and secondary schools. Through this program, the organization also donates classroom furniture to native american schools in the united states and needy schools throughout the world, and gives orphans and poor school children uniforms, shoes, and school bags filled with stationery, pens, and other educational items through its back to school program.
$5,762,699 spent14% of program spendingFood basket programs - the food basket programs include various seasonal projects that help feed needy families in many countries throughout the world. During ramadan, the organization distributes food baskets to poor and needy individuals and also provides hot cooked meals to various communities. Additionally, the organization partners with islamic centers, grocery stores, and supermarkets in communities in the united states to distribute udhiyah and qurbani to individuals and families that may otherwise not have access to meat throughout the year. Through the christmas and thanksgiving programs, the organization may also support a community event by providing a meal and gifts or may distribute food baskets for thanksgiving to poor and homeless individuals.
$2,354,574 spent6% of program spendingClean water project programs - through the clean water programs, the organization assists communities that have little or no access to clean water by constructing water wells or providing water tanks. Water is a necessity of life needed for proper heath, hygiene, and sanitation and for livestock populations.
$669,130 spent2% of program spendingCommunity development programs - the organization builds community centers where community members gather for social events, and also funds small human development projects for poor families to enable them to start their own businesses to support their families.
$62,840 spent0% of program spendingFamily assistance programs - the family assistance programs work to improve the living conditions of vulnerable single mothers and disabled heads of households in various countries, who have lost everything from the devastating impact of war and famine. Through these programs, the organization also provides winter aid to families, which may include warm blankets, winter clothes, and jackets.
$30,908 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,473,504.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $8.0M (+28%).
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.
100% of LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dr Hany El-Sayed Saqr
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Dr Abdulwahab Mehdi Asamarai
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $177k → $617k.
17 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 50% · 2019 52% · 2020 39% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
80% of LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC'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 $886k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 47 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Life Managements L3c · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC?
- LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,480,882 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,491,810). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $4,480,882 in grants to LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,491,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 79 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