Charity Rating

Efficiency & Effectiveness

Direct Relief’s work earns wide recognition from independent charity evaluation agencies, including a 100% fundraising efficiency rating from Forbes, the No. 1 spot on Charity Navigator’s list of the “10 Best Charities Everyone’s Heard Of,” and inclusion in Fast Company’s list of “the world’s most innovative nonprofits.”
Emergency medical aid was delivered to Health ProMed in Vieques, an island 80 miles east of San Juan that was hit particularly hard by Hurricane Maria. (Photo by Bimarian Films for Direct Relief)

Charity Navigator

Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities, gives Direct Relief a 4-Star rating and the No. 1 spot on its list of the “Best Charities Everyone’s Heard Of.”
Ten Best Charities
8th Consecutive 4-Star Rating
Perfect 100 Rating

Recognition

"10 Most Innovative Nonprofits"

Fast Company named Direct Relief among the "10 Most Innovative Nonprofits" for its use of mapping technology during the 2015 Ebola outbreak.

Top 10 U.S. Charities

Forbes recognized Direct Relief as 100% efficient in fundraising and among the top 10 charities in the U.S.

Awards

  • “10 Best Humanitarian Relief Organizations,” Charity Navigator
  • 2018 Oktane Award Finalist, Okta for Good
  • Healthy10 Award, BD Helping Build Healthy Communities, US Chamber Foundation
  • Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, Los Angeles, Ernst & Young
  • The Best Charities to Give this Holiday Season, Good Housekeeping
  • First Place, Story Map, Esri User Conference
  • Directors’ Award, CECP, formerly the Committee for Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy – Recognition for exceptional humanitarian-corporate partnership with FedEx
  • Power through Partnership Award – National Association of Community Health Centers
  • President’s Award, Esri – For innovation in GIS mapping
  • “Best Charity,” Independent Charities of America’s “Best in America” list
  • Global Health Partnership Award, BD
  • Laureate in the Innovation Category, Computerworld Magazine
  • National Charity Seal, Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance
  • Community Health Partnership Award, Florida Association of Community Health Centers
  • Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation – recognizing Direct Relief’s use of information technology to more effectively and efficiently deliver humanitarian aid to healthcare partners around the world.
  • Top-Rated Charity: International Relief and Development, The American Institute of Philanthropy
  • Community Collaboration Business Star Award, Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce
  • Honoree of the Year, Certificate of Congressional Recognition, Peruvian American Medical Society
  • California State Resolution, commending Direct Relief for work in Haiti after the Earthquake
  • Stepping Up Award, for outstanding work in GIS following the Haiti earthquake, ESRI
  • Community Clinic Health Star Award, Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County
  • Outstanding MRC Partner Organization Award, National Medical Reserve Corps
  • Friend of Community Clinic Health Star Award from Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County
  • Certificate of Acknowledgment, for response to Haiti earthquake, City of Manhattan Beach, CA
  • Guardian Award. Louisiana Primary Care Association
  • Community Clinic Champion Award, California Primary Care Association
  • Healthcare Heroes Award, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

Active Emergency Responses

Firefighters battle the Carr Fire in Shasta County last week. Direct Relief is offering respiratory masks and other supplies to healthcare facilities in areas across the state impacted by fires. (Photo courtesy of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection)

Wildfires

California Wildfires

Direct Relief is responding to a series of devastating fires burning across its home state of California, providing healthcare agencies and emergency responders in wildfire-affected communities with N-95 masks, medicine and other needed items.

Refugee Crisis

Rohingya Refugee Crisis

An unprecedented humanitarian emergency has been building as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have crossed the Myanmar border into neighboring Bangladesh.

Emergency News

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