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Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$156k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
99
Grants FY2024
73
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$800
Largest grant, FY2024
$13,820
Organizations funded a year
73 to 137
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving95$152k42%
FY202373$148k42%
FY202297$236k39%
FY2021137$193k47%
FY2020119$172kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$348kInternational$209kEducation$103kReligion$89kHealth$81kPhilanthropy$21kCivil Rights$17kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Magen David Sephardic Congregation$55,7695n/a
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$48,56150%
The National Museum of Women in the Arts$46,60050%
The Washington Ballet$34,96050%
American University of Armenia Corporation$26,00050%
Lebanese American University$25,50050%
Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California$15,00026%
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$11,50030%
The Phillips Collection$11,44040%
Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital$11,00020%
St Mary Armenian Apostolic Church$8,2004n/a
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$8,01530%
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens$7,71040%
Washington International Piano Arts Council$6,4004n/a
Friends of Cancer Research$6,00030%
Post Classical Ensemble Inc$6,00051%
Georgetown University$6,00010%
Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc$5,7004n/a
National Union for Democracy in Iran Inc$5,50021%
Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc$5,50010%
Nor Or Charitable Foundation Inc$5,25045%
American Friends of Lubavitch$5,15030%
McLean Project for the Arts$5,00050%
Meridian International Center$5,00010%
Ford's Theatre Society$5,00010%
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn$4,83030%
Washington Drama Society Inc$4,75050%
Center for Creative Change$4,50040%
Heifetz International Music Institute Inc$4,50020%
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies$4,40010%
N Street Village Inc$4,00030%
Washington Opera Society$3,85021%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$3,70030%
International Student House$3,65030%
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc$3,50040%
Sephardic Community Foundation$3,5002n/a
DC Jazz Festival$3,30050%
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc$3,30030%
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America$3,2503n/a
Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc$3,19630%
Alef Bet Montessori School$3,16040%
Fund for Armenian Relief Inc$3,00020%
Blair House Foundation$3,00040%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$3,00030%
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum$2,85030%
Innocents at Risk$2,53932%
Truth & Accountability League$2,5001n/a
Arts for the Aging Inc$2,50050%
Theatrewashington$2,50010%
The Reddy2fight Foundation$2,50042%
Link Generations Inc$2,50033%
Colorectal Cancer Alliance$2,50030%
Joseph Robert Shaw Foundation Inc$2,50040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,50030%
In Series Inc$2,50040%
Curepsp Inc$2,10040%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$2,00010%
Armenian Museum of America Inc$2,00020%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$2,00030%
Tekeyan Cultural Association Inc$2,00030%
Refugees International Inc$2,00020%
The Armenian Eyecare Project$2,00020%
Cloverleaf Equine Center$2,00020%
Armenian American Cultural Association Inc$2,00041%
Soorp Khatch Armenian Apostolic Church Inc$2,0002n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,75030%
Holy Cross Health Foundation Inc$1,50020%
Armenia Tools4schools$1,5001n/a
Montgomery Hospice Inc$1,50030%
The Primary Day School Inc$1,50020%
American Jewish Committee$1,50030%
The Civilitas Foundation$1,50020%
Sitar Arts Center$1,40030%
Tufenkian Foundation Inc$1,2001n/a
Cultural Tourism DC Inc$1,10030%
Best Friends Animal Society$1,10040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,10040%
Smithsonian Institution$1,10020%
Armenia Fund Inc$1,00010%
The National Theatre Foundation$1,00010%
Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc$1,00020%
French-American Piano Inc$1,0001n/a
Knock Out Abuse$1,0001n/a
Alexandria Singers$1,00040%
Museum of the Bible$1,00010%
American Pops Orchestra$1,0001n/a
Stable$1,0001n/a
Appeal of Conscience Foundation$1,00010%
Yeshiva University$1,00010%
Armenian Film Foundation$1,00012%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate$1,00010%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$1,00010%
Mashdots College$1,0001n/a
Gofundmeorg$1,00010%
Ayenda Foundation$1,00021%
Engage Promoting Womens Economic Security$1,00010%
Ezer Mizion$1,00010%
Armenia Artsakh Fund Inc$1,0001n/a
The Amer Research Inst of the South Cauc$1,00010%
Jubilee Foundation Inc$1,00020%
Chopivsky Family Foundation$1,00010%
American Institute for Cancer Research$1,00040%
The National Children's Cancer Society$90040%
Friends of the American University of Afghanistan$87010%
The Richard Nixon Foundation$84210%
Palm Beach Freedom Institute Inc$78510%
Voces8 Foundation USA$75720%
National Women's History Museum$73420%
The Paros Foundation$70020%
New Jewish Narrative Inc$70020%
Operation Homefront Inc$70020%
National Council on Us-Arab Relations$65010%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$60030%
Hungarian-American Coalition$54010%
Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc$50010%
Pen Faulkner Foundation$50010%
Dance Theatre of Harlem Inc$50010%
Marshall Legacy Institute$50010%
Armenian Relief Society Inc$5001n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc$50010%
Denver Jewish Day School$50010%
The Barack Obama Foundation$50010%
Trust for the National Mall$50010%
Nova Ukraine$50010%
Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc$50010%
Sixth & I Synagogue Inc$50010%
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc$50010%
University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Unicare Medical Solutions Inc$50010%
American Armenian Rose Float Association Inc$5001n/a
Long Island University$50010%
American-Italian Cancer Foundation$50010%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$50010%
Global Liver Institute Inc$50010%
Armenian International Women's Associati$50010%
Partners for the Arts Inc$50011%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc$50010%
International Sephardic Educational & Cultural Center in Jerusalem$50010%
Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America$5001n/a
American Armenian National Security Inst$5001n/a
Sidwell Friends School$5001n/a
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$50010%
Georgetown Community Chorale$50011%
Easter Seals Inc$45340%
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc$42510%
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Inc$42030%
American Heart Association Inc$40030%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$40040%
General Israel Orphan Home for Girls$40040%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$35010%
Smile Train Inc$30020%
Children's Inn at Nih Inc$30020%
Ocean Conservancy$30010%
The Shakespeare Theatre$30010%
American Friends of the Israel Museum$25010%
Maryland Matters Inc$25010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20020%
Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County Inc$20010%
Central Union Mission$20020%
Martha's Table Inc$20010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$20010%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$20010%
Hospice of Charles County Inc$20010%
Operation Understanding of the District of Columbia$20010%
Special Olympics Maryland Inc$10310%
Wildaid Inc$10310%
Legal Counsel for the Elderly$10010%
Suburban Hospital Inc$10010%
AARP Foundation$10010%
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$10010%
Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation USA Ltd$10016%
Hebrew Sheltering Home$1001n/a
Children With Hair Loss Inc$2310%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 120 recipients with no EIN on record ($333k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArmenian Assembly of America Inc: $48,561 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe National Museum of Women in the Arts: $46,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington Ballet: $34,960 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican University of Armenia Corporation: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLebanese American University: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $15,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $11,440 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMilton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVital Voices Global Partnership Inc: $8,015 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHillwood Estate Museum & Gardens: $7,710 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPost Classical Ensemble Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGeorgetown University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Union for Democracy in Iran Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNor Or Charitable Foundation Inc: $5,250 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Lubavitch: $5,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMcLean Project for the Arts: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMeridian International Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFord's Theatre Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $4,830 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Drama Society Inc: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Creative Change: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHeifetz International Music Institute Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $4,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetN Street Village Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Opera Society: $3,850 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Student House: $3,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMiddle East Media and Research Institute Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDC Jazz Festival: $3,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSave a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc: $3,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOrchestra of the Americas Group Inc: $3,196 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlef Bet Montessori School: $3,160 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFund for Armenian Relief Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlair House Foundation: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $2,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInnocents at Risk: $2,539 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetArts for the Aging Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTheatrewashington: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Reddy2fight Foundation: $2,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLink Generations Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetColorectal Cancer Alliance: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJoseph Robert Shaw Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIn Series Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 150.

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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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC40.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sami & Annie Totah 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.

About Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation

How much does Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation give?
Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $155,732 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 73 and 137 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), International (23%), Education (11%).
Who are Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Magen David Sephardic Congregation ($56k), Armenian Assembly of America Inc ($49k), The National Museum of Women in the Arts ($47k).
Does Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc, The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation.
Where is Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation based?
Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation is based in MD.

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 299 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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