· Private foundation
The Al-Azem Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION | $49,000 |
| WHITE HELMETS INC | $25,000 |
| SYRIAN AMERICAN COUNCEL | $25,000 |
| UMMA | $20,000 |
| SUNRISE | $4,000 |
| MEDGLOBAL | $3,000 |
| MUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| SWASIA CHARITY | $1,000 |
| MERCY WITHOUT LIMIT | $1,000 |
| FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ASSOC | $60 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BHBEVERLY HILLS ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +47%
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION3× · 2023–2025 · $56k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2020 · $32k
Funded once
- IHINTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEFone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SSAMSone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TITULEDO ISLAMI SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
We provides medical assistance in disaster-affected and underserved areas, supports refugees, supplies experts for relief efforts, promotes medical education, and collaborates with similar NGOs globally.
Multifaith Alliance Incorporated's purpose is to harness the collective power of faith-based and secular partners to build on the strength and resilience of the Syrian people, help them restore their lives, and plant the seeds for a more…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Humanity-Increased is an international charity whose mission is to help those in need and promote human transformation. The teachings of Islam inspire our mission, and we strive to embody its values of compassion, empathy, and service to…
Strategic Global Response effectively and efficiently delivers life-saving care to people affected by humanitarian crises, in the most challenging situations on earth
Amel Foundation is most focused on addressing the dire situation caused by the war in Sudan and the need of Nine Million people who have been displaced as a result of the war, by providing them with food, shelter , water, and medical…
Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.
To provide humanitarian aid relief and support to refugees and individuals displaced by war conflict and natural disasters worldwide. In 2025 we were a fiscal sponsor for multiple projects helping refugees residing in Egypt.
We are dedicated to delivering life-saving services, revitalizing health systems during crisis and promoting medical education via a network of humanitarians in syria, the us, and beyond.
Ias america exists to promote wellbeing, empower communities, and restore human dignity through human transformation - going beyond relief and development, by investing in people, especially in sub-saharan africa, so that they can realize…
Our mission is to save lives and work to ensure a healthier future for all through medical relief and healthcare development on behalf of Syrian American healthcare professionals. Our vision is to be a leading humanitarian organization,…
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 31 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 BEVERLY HILLS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE HELMETS INC ↗
- Who funds Syrian American Council ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women for Humanity ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Kashlan Foundation · The Honest Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Kadry Foundation · The Symn Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · American Muslim Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Al-Azem Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Al-Azem Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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