Islamic Relief Worldwide

faith-based humanitarian NGO

Islamic Relief Worldwide

Industry Religion

A global Muslim humanitarian organization providing emergency relief, development, and aid programs. It scores positively because service value and public humanitarian mission are strong, though governance controversy, leadership reversibility, and faith-based identity keep it below the strongest aid institutions.

Why this matters: Islamic Relief is a major Muslim humanitarian comparison point.

Letter grade B Qualified High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 47* B - Qualified

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material49
Bonus+8
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap57
Penalties-10
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Evaluation Overview

B - Qualified

The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Reversibility.

Strengths

  • Extraction8/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
  • Loss-Bearing Fidelity6/7

Penalties

  • Reversibility-5
  • Accountability Opacity-2
  • Human Harm-1
  • Identity Capture-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims18
  • Direct axis claims18
  • Coverage18/18

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
5 / 10

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 5 on Ownership because islamic Relief Worldwide is governed as an institutional religious body rather than by worker, member-consumer, or affected-community ownership..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide is governed as an institutional religious body rather than by worker, member-consumer, or affected-community ownership. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
5 / 10

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 5 on Governance because islamic Relief Worldwide has nonprofit governance and public reporting, but affected communities and workers do not directly own or govern the organization..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide has nonprofit governance and public reporting, but affected communities and workers do not directly own or govern the organization. [2]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 8 on Extraction because islamic Relief Worldwide's resource flows depend on donations, institutional assets, dues, offerings, or affiliated service systems rather than democratic surplus return to affected people..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's resource flows depend on donations, institutional assets, dues, offerings, or affiliated service systems rather than democratic surplus return to affected people. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
4 / 7

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 4 on Labor Sovereignty because islamic Relief Worldwide's clergy, staff, volunteers, or members operate inside religious authority structures with limited…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's clergy, staff, volunteers, or members operate inside religious authority structures with limited worker sovereignty compared with co-determined or worker-owned institutions. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
7 / 7

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 7 on Solidarity Unemployed because islamic Relief Worldwide's public record shows some ministry, charity, or mutual-aid orientation, but not a universal structural guarantee for people outside paid work..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's public record shows some ministry, charity, or mutual-aid orientation, but not a universal structural guarantee for people outside paid work. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 6 on Loss Bearing Fidelity because islamic Relief Worldwide's mission language and public-service work show some willingness to absorb cost for values, while accountability still depends on institutional discretion..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's mission language and public-service work show some willingness to absorb cost for values, while accountability still depends on institutional discretion. [6]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 4 on Market Conduct because islamic Relief Worldwide is not an ordinary seller, but it controls access to religious community, services, identity, donations, or institutional recognition..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide is not an ordinary seller, but it controls access to religious community, services, identity, donations, or institutional recognition. [7]
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 5 on Product Integrity because islamic Relief Worldwide provides disaster relief, development aid, food, health, water, and emergency assistance with strong public-service value..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide provides disaster relief, development aid, food, health, water, and emergency assistance with strong public-service value. [8]
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

Islamic Relief Worldwide sits at 5 on Scale Integrity because islamic Relief Worldwide's scale gives it public importance and service capacity, while also magnifying hierarchy, opacity, and identity pressure..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's scale gives it public importance and service capacity, while also magnifying hierarchy, opacity, and identity pressure. [9]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Reversibility
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Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders, founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.
-5

Islamic Relief Worldwide is penalized at -5 on Reversibility because islamic Relief Worldwide's positive conduct depends on present leadership, doctrine, boards, religious culture, or…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's positive conduct depends on present leadership, doctrine, boards, religious culture, or discretionary institutional practice rather than locked affected-stakeholder control. [14]
Human Harm
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Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense, reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to 0.
-1

Islamic Relief Worldwide is penalized at -1 on Human Harm because the current record includes governance controversy and regulator scrutiny, but not direct evidence of systemic violence or abuse comparable with high-harm religious institutions..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • The current record includes governance controversy and regulator scrutiny, but not direct evidence of systemic violence or abuse comparable with high-harm religious institutions. [15]
Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

Islamic Relief Worldwide is penalized at -2 on Accountability Opacity because islamic Relief Worldwide's public accountability is limited by religious hierarchy, internal processes, donor opacity, abuse-reporting gaps, or incomplete financial transparency..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's public accountability is limited by religious hierarchy, internal processes, donor opacity, abuse-reporting gaps, or incomplete financial transparency. [16]
Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Islamic Relief Worldwide is penalized at -1 on Identity Capture because islamic Relief Worldwide has a faith-based identity, but its humanitarian framing is less identity-capturing than high-control religious membership systems..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide has a faith-based identity, but its humanitarian framing is less identity-capturing than high-control religious membership systems. [17]
Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Islamic Relief Worldwide is penalized at -1 on Ideological Disavowal because islamic Relief Worldwide presents religious or moral authority as truth, service, tradition, or neutrality in ways that can obscure its institutional standpoint and power..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide presents religious or moral authority as truth, service, tradition, or neutrality in ways that can obscure its institutional standpoint and power. [18]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
1 / 3

Islamic Relief Worldwide gets limited positive credit on Openness To Dissent because islamic Relief Worldwide's public structures provide some channels for criticism or reform, but dissent remains bounded by religious authority and institutional control..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's public structures provide some channels for criticism or reform, but dissent remains bounded by religious authority and institutional control. [10]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
2 / 3

Islamic Relief Worldwide gets limited positive credit on Constitutional Spirit because islamic Relief Worldwide's public work includes some civil-society value, but internal religious governance is not equivalent to public constitutional accountability..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's public work includes some civil-society value, but internal religious governance is not equivalent to public constitutional accountability. [11]
Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
3 / 3

Islamic Relief Worldwide gets limited positive credit on Good Deal because islamic Relief Worldwide provides community, services, aid, education, advocacy, or spiritual goods that can have practical value outside ordinary market exchange..

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide provides community, services, aid, education, advocacy, or spiritual goods that can have practical value outside ordinary market exchange. [12]
Cost Transparency
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Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
2 / 3

Islamic Relief Worldwide gets limited positive credit on Cost Transparency because islamic Relief Worldwide's public materials disclose some institutional information, but donations,…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion.

Linked evidence
  • Islamic Relief Worldwide's public materials disclose some institutional information, but donations, assets, internal costs, or affiliated finances are not fully transparent to affected people. [13]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

High 91/100

18 verified linked claims 18 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 18/18 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 20/20

18 verified linked claims

Source quality 18/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

18 direct claims across 18 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 14, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

18/18 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Islamic Relief Worldwide is governed as an institutional religious body rather than by worker, member-consumer, or affected-community ownership.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Islamic Relief Worldwide has nonprofit governance and public reporting, but affected communities and workers do not directly own or govern the organization.

Governance Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

3Islamic Relief Worldwide's resource flows depend on donations, institutional assets, dues, offerings, or affiliated service systems rather than democratic surplus return to affected people.

Extraction Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4Islamic Relief Worldwide's clergy, staff, volunteers, or members operate inside religious authority structures with limited worker sovereignty compared with co-determined or worker-owned institutions.

Labor Sovereignty Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

5Islamic Relief Worldwide's public record shows some ministry, charity, or mutual-aid orientation, but not a universal structural guarantee for people outside paid work.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

6Islamic Relief Worldwide's mission language and public-service work show some willingness to absorb cost for values, while accountability still depends on institutional discretion.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

7Islamic Relief Worldwide is not an ordinary seller, but it controls access to religious community, services, identity, donations, or institutional recognition.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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8Islamic Relief Worldwide provides disaster relief, development aid, food, health, water, and emergency assistance with strong public-service value.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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9Islamic Relief Worldwide's scale gives it public importance and service capacity, while also magnifying hierarchy, opacity, and identity pressure.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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10Islamic Relief Worldwide's public structures provide some channels for criticism or reform, but dissent remains bounded by religious authority and institutional control.

Openness To Dissent Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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11Islamic Relief Worldwide's public work includes some civil-society value, but internal religious governance is not equivalent to public constitutional accountability.

Constitutional Spirit Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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12Islamic Relief Worldwide provides community, services, aid, education, advocacy, or spiritual goods that can have practical value outside ordinary market exchange.

Good Deal Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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13Islamic Relief Worldwide's public materials disclose some institutional information, but donations, assets, internal costs, or affiliated finances are not fully transparent to affected people.

Cost Transparency Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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14Islamic Relief Worldwide's positive conduct depends on present leadership, doctrine, boards, religious culture, or discretionary institutional practice rather than locked affected-stakeholder control.

Reversibility Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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15The current record includes governance controversy and regulator scrutiny, but not direct evidence of systemic violence or abuse comparable with high-harm religious institutions.

Human Harm Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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16Islamic Relief Worldwide's public accountability is limited by religious hierarchy, internal processes, donor opacity, abuse-reporting gaps, or incomplete financial transparency.

Accountability Opacity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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17Islamic Relief Worldwide has a faith-based identity, but its humanitarian framing is less identity-capturing than high-control religious membership systems.

Identity Capture Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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18Islamic Relief Worldwide presents religious or moral authority as truth, service, tradition, or neutrality in ways that can obscure its institutional standpoint and power.

Ideological Disavowal Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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