Donations fund the work we do, supporting vulnerable people in times of crisis and helping to lift them out of poverty. With your generous support, we will reach in the next coming years, over 6 million Refugees, working in some of the world’s most dangerous and difficult places.

Most of our work is funded by individual donors. In the next coming years, Hope Charity Foundation, We’ll take the chance worldwide to raise $12 million which will allow us to support over 8 million people of “Refugees”. We aimed for $6 million of this to come from the public and the rest to come from various sources including income from our charity avenues; funds from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC); institutional donors such as the European Commission and the UN; and charitable foundations and trusts.

For every $1 you donate, 87 percent is spent on helping people in need. 9 percent goes towards raising more funds and 4 percent is spent on administration costs. Administration and fundraising costs are sometimes bracketed together and described as ‘support costs.’ This is the breakdown but really all of your donations are used either directly or indirectly to help people in need because administration and fundraising are a necessary part of delivering aid.

Administration allows us to deliver aid effectively . It ensures the right aid gets to the right people at the right time. We aim to keep our administration costs to a minimum without cutting corners in the quality, efficiency, and transparency of our work.

While admin costs are necessary, all charities have a responsibility to ensure money is not misspent. Hope Charity Foundation, in line with our Islamic values of Ihsan (excellence) and Amanah (custodianship), is committed to ensuring donations are used in the most efficient and effective way. We are accountable to Allah, to our donors, and to all those we have the honor to serve. It is a heavy responsibility to safeguard donations and especially those that fulfill a religious duty such as zakat and Qurbani. We bear this responsibility willingly but not lightly.

We have stringent financial and governance processes that ensure donations are spent with transparency, accountability, and in line with donors’ wishes. We have an internal audit function, which ensures that controls on expenditure are in place and procedures are followed. Our Board of Trustees has oversight of our accounts through an independent Audit Committee and takes personal responsibility for the operations of the organization. The Audit Committee is comprised of experienced specialists who give their time free of charge – as do our trustees.

In addition, Hope Charity Foundation presents its independently audited accounts annually to the Charity Commission, which registers and regulates charities in USA to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence. If the Charity Commission has any concerns about the way a charity is operating or presenting its information, it can hold the charity to account.

We have a structured salary scale in place to ensure we are able to attract professional staff and that they are paid a fair wage for their expertise, in line with the local cost of living. Our salary bill relative to others in the international charity sector is comparatively low, and this fact speaks volumes about the commitment and passion of the people who work for “The Hope Charity Foundation”. In fact, some of our staff regularly work beyond their contracted hours and spend long periods away from home, especially during an emergency crisis.

The CEO of Hope Charity Foundation Worldwide earns considerably less than any CEOs in the USA – as declared in our Annual Report – which is far less than the CEOs of other USA-based charities of a similar scale.

Yes, around 1% of our income is spent on campaigning on social justice issues like gender justice, support for refugees, and tackling climate change. We believe it is important to raise awareness of issues that affect the most vulnerable people in the world. By campaigning, lobbying governments, going on marches, running petitions, and putting pressure on decision-makers, we can help make the world a kinder, fairer place.