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Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation

The foundation provides assistance to assyrian and non-assyrian elders in the community and works to preserve assyrian culture and history.

$395k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$976kReligion$516kArts & Culture$75kHuman Services$64kEducation$63kFood & Nutrition$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $231,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $395,326 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $164,326 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
$6,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSYRIAN AID SOCIETY$93,400
INSIGHTS SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES INC$48,000
ARAMAIC BIBLE TRANSLATION NFP$21,000
CHURCH OF EAST ST GEORGE CATHEDRAL$16,500
ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH$15,000
ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST GLENVIEW$6,500
ASSYRIAN ATHLETIC CLUB OF ILLINOIS$6,000
ST ODISHO'S CHURCH$5,500
ST MARY'S CHURCH$5,000
ST JOHN'S PARISH$5,000
ST SARGIS PARISH$5,000
ST PETER CATHEDRAL HOLY APOSTOLIC ACOE$4,100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ETUTI INSTITUE: $7k → 15%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 14%ETUTI INSTITUE: $6k → 15%MARILLAC HOUSE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 14%ASSYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $6k → 14%ACERO: $30k → 14%ASSYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $3k → 14%ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST RELEIF ORGANIZATION (ACERO): $30k → 14%CHICAGO HOPE: $1k → 14%PILSEN FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $996 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MA
IA
CA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 37% of Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 42% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 12 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
50

Total granted

$1.6M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+40%

Still filing today

50%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalReligionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AA
    Assyrian Aid Society of America Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $921k · revenue +40%
  • AA
    ASSYRIAN ATHLETIC CLUB OF ILLINOIS
    3× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +76%
  • AN
    ASSYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +59%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northern Il Helping Hands Food Pantry Nfp

To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.

Food & Nutrition
2
Cicero-Berwyn-Stickney Food Pantry

To collect and distribute food and other supplies at no cost to the needy in the Cicero-Berwyn-Stickney (Illinois) area.

Human Services
3
Turpin Cares Nfp

To provide help to the homeless and nearly homeless

Human Services
4
Neighborhood Food Pantries

Neighborhood food pantries is organized exclusively for the charitable purpose of providing food and financial relief for the underprivileged.

Human Services
5
Faith Feeds Food Pantry Inc

Faith Feeds Food Pantry, Inc. supports food-insecure populations of Chicagos northwest suburbs.Their mobile food pantry ensures access to essential resources by bringing food directly to those who cant reach the pantry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
7
Guardian Group Nfp

To provide relief and support to the homeless, underprivileged, and unemployed. To ease the daily burdens of life.

Human Services
8
Geneseo-Atkinson Food Pantry

The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.

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9
Ojala Foundation

Ojala foundation, a nonprofit organization, prides itself on the bridges it builds between the muslim and latino communities, while also establishing and maintaining community spaces at the intersectionality of those identities.…

Religion
10
Heal Chicago

To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.

Public Benefit
11
Alicia's House Inc

To alleviate hunger locally.

Human Services
12
Indo-American Center

The Indo-American Center creates and provides services that facilitate South Asian immigrant adjustment, socio-economic wellbeing, and community through direct service, education and advocacy.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Assyrian Church of the East Relief. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Assyrian Aid Society of America Inc: $921,162 · InternationalAssyrian Aid Society of America Inc+1 more: $500 · InternationalHOLY APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST: $223,700 · OtherHOLY APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC ASSYRIAN CHU…INSIGHTS SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES INC: $116,000 · OtherINSIGHTS SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES INCIGROUP PRODUCTIONS: $55,000 · OtherIGROUP PRODUCTIONSST ODISHO CHURCH: $47,000 · OtherST ODISHO CHURCHASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $33,000 · OtherASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH+42 more: $120,032 · Other+42 moreASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST RELIEF: $60,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesETUTI INSTITUTE: $12,889 · Human ServicesASSYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $8,583 · Human Services+4 more: $6,080 · Human ServicesARAMAIC BIBLE TRANSLATION NFP: $90,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 · ReligionUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthASSYRIAN ATHLETIC CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $17,200 · Recreation & Sports
International$921,662Other$594,732Human Services$132,552Religion$115,000Education$50,000Health$25,000Recreation & Sports$17,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAssyrian Aid Society of America Inc: $921,162 over 8y, 17% of budgetARAMAIC BIBLE TRANSLATION NFP: $90,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST RELIEF: $60,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSYRIAN ATHLETIC CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $17,200 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetETUTI INSTITUTE: $12,889 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetASSYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $8,583 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $3,269 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNILES TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY FOUNDATION: $3,245 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHAUMBURG TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,688 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $2,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER: $2,124 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,124 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,918 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $1,586 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD SHARE LOVE FOOD PANTRY: $1,567 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEYDEN TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,566 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1,549 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON PANTRY: $586 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $586 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION OF LIMITED ENGLISH SPEAKING ELDERLY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Cultural Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Assyrian Aid Society of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARAMAIC BIBLE TRANSLATION NFP ↗
  • Who funds ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ASSYRIAN ATHLETIC CLUB OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds ASSYRIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ETUTI INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ASSYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds ASSYRIAN STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NILES TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCHAUMBURG TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Chicago Food DepositoryIL39.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Assyrian National Council of Illinois · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Mark Morton Memorial Fund · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Forefront · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · AbbVie Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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