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El Sawy Family Foundation at a glance

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El Sawy Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$549k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.1MHealth$209kArts & Culture$100kScience & Tech$20kEducation$10kYouth Development$10kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$548,683
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELSAWY FAMILY GIVING FUND AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND$548,684
TAREK AND LISA ELSAWY AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND$548,683
WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY21–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 5 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$213k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WT
    WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k
  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $45k

Funded once

  • RF
    RELIANT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +342%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS WILMER EYE
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • GW
    GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
The Alexandria Hospital Foundation

Fundraising to support inova alexandria hospital, an acute care tax exempt hospital.

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3
Uso Foundation

The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.

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4
Loudoun Healthcare Foundation

Undertake and assist in the identification, cultivation, encouragement and solicitation of all types of gifts and the management of trust and endowment funds for the benefit of inova loudoun hospital

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5
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
6
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
10
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Core Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cape Ivy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELSAWY FAMILY GIVING FUND AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $548,684 · OtherELSAWY FAMILY GIVING FUND AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDTAREK AND LISA ELSAWY AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $548,683 · OtherTAREK AND LISA ELSAWY AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDJOHNS HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS: $45,000 · Other+2 more: $60,000 · OtherWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureRELIANT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthOperation Walk of Virginia Inc: $12,500 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthWigs For Kids Inc: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthKENYON COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCORE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,252,367Arts & Culture$100,000Health$83,500Education$10,000Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$3,000Public Benefit$2,000

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 budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRELIANT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOperation Walk of Virginia Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWigs For Kids Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $2,000 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.

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.

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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 El Sawy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from El Sawy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to El Sawy Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to El Sawy Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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