Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC
RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,693 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($928,504). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $66M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $940k
What Relief International Inc does
Mission
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. Relief international is non-political and non-sectarian. Ri's core partners are communities of poor and vulnerable people, especially: - people living in underserved, remote and/or dangerous places.- refugees, internally displaced persons, and victims of natural and man-made disasters and civil wars. - women and girls, especially those in need of primary education and health services.- small-scale entrepreneurs, farmers and rural dwellers in need of training and strategic value chain interventions. - other vulnerable communities whose needs match ri's selective skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Multi-sectoral: some of relief international's programs combine 2 or more of the existing sectors: health, wash (water sanitation, and hygiene), economic opportunity, and education. This is an integrated approach to ensure sustainable development.
$50,267,736 spentof which $17,529,680 as grants81% of program spendingHealth: strengthened primary healthcare systems create foundations for community resilience while promoting long-term health and wellbeing of vulnerable communities, their animals and environmental settings. Relief international's health sector delivers life-saving and life-improving services to children, women and men to increase their physical and mental wellbeing in emergencies, protracted relief and recovery, and development settings. Ri's programs prevent disease and respond to trauma treat acute and chronic illnesses and injuries and promote healthy practices to support human physical and psychological development by addressing the causes and risks that limit human health, including integration with animal and environmental health issues which has a direct impact on human health.
$6,393,562 spentof which $2,906,526 as grants10% of program spendingEducation: relief international's education programs promote equitable access to safe, quality, and sustainable educational opportunities for vulnerable children and youth (females and males) to advance in their learning in emergencies, protracted relief and recovery, and development settings. Community education and engagement encourages social cohesion and behavior change among children, youth, and their families to actively participate in the education process, their communities and lead productive lives promoting long-term wellbeing.
$2,965,028 spentof which $547,568 as grants5% of program spendingEconomic opportunity: relief international creates and strengthens a sustainable, equitable, and resilient economic/livelihoods environment for vulnerable women and men in emergencies, protracted relief and recovery, and development settings. Ri's programs increase jobs, incomes and assets by addressing the causes and risks that restrict access to economic opportunities. Ri incorporates disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and other risk reduction considerations to build resilience in the affected communities.
$2,408,153 spentof which $634,354 as grants$1,658,962 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther: relief international also provides protection and emergency response services (including shelter, food items, non-food items, water, etc.) to populations facing sudden and slow onset disasters, both natural and man-made.
$368,303 spentof which $177,248 as grants1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $62,402,782.
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 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $20M (+36%).
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: 2017 93% · 2018 92% · 2019 91% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Craig Redmond
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $83k → $387k.
17 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 66% · 2019 34% · 2020 47% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 39% — 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
21% of RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $207.6M on record — $207.6M federal, $10 state.
- Agency for International Development$119.2M
- Department of State$88.4M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $10
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 RELIEF INTERNATIONAL 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 39 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Enterprise Works LLC · disregarded
- Relief International Europe · exempt
- Relief International France · exempt
- Relief International UK · exempt
- Relief International Afghanistan · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: 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 RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC?
- RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,693 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($928,504). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $5,429,693 in grants to RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $928,504 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 44 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