· Private foundation
Medhat F Sami Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
66% of Medhat F Sami Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Medhat F Sami Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $78k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC | $20,000 |
| HELLEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $7,500 |
| THE CLEAR FUND DBA GIVEWELL | $7,500 |
| THE AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION US | $7,500 |
| THE SHEPHERD AND MOTHER OF LIGHT FO | $5,000 |
| HANDS ALONG THE NILE DEVELOPMENT SE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +31%
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +2%
- TCTHE CLEAR FUND2× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +31%
Funded once
MASS DESIGN GROUP LTDone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -11%- TAThe Against Malaria Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +29%
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +35%
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.
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.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Deliver new drugs and new diagnostics for diseases that affect predominantly economically vulnerable populations.
Tb alliance is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of better, faster-acting and affordable tuberculosis drugs that are available to those who need them.
To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives
To encourage individuals, corporations, foundations and donor governments to support the global fund, an international foundation focused on ending three of the world's most deadly infectious diseases.
Our mission is to enable and finance the development of life-saving genetic medicines for ultra-rare patient populations previously deemed too rare to treat. to realize this, our unique ecosystems facilitates collaboration between…
To improve global health by advancing angiogenesis-based medicine, diet, and lifestyle.
The organization's mission is to develop therapies for diseases that for-profit, commercial developers deem too rare, and therefore not commercially viable to develop, and to provide access to these therapies to all patients in need.
The mission of dndi north america is to contribute to the achievement of dndi's global objectives, in particular to strenghten and expand dndi's scientific, policy advocacy, fundraising, and communications efforts in north america by (a)…
Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.
To improve lives in africa and asia through sustainable, evidence-based programs that combat targeted diseases, and promote child and maternal health.
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ALONG THE NILE DEVELOPMENT SE ↗
- Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Medhat F Sami Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Medhat F Sami Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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