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The Azar Foundation For Children

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$173kPhilanthropy$78kArts & Culture$65kInternational$59kReligion$55kCivil Rights$22kHealth$18kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$111k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERIDIANORG$50,000
WASHINGTON CENTER FOR EDUCATION$20,000
Lissencephaly Research and Callie C$11,900
GEORGTOWN UNIVERSITRY$11,000
WASHINGTON GLOBAL PUBLIC SCHOOL$10,000
Washington Educational and Cultural$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MARSHAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER$10,000
Regents of the University of California$10,000
VISIONARY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
ALABASTER HOUSE$5,150
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $2k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUNISIA AID: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 34% of The Azar Foundation For Children’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 12% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Azar Foundation For Childrenlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62k · 3 repeat orgs$519k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +201% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
36

Total granted

$62k
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+201%
+22%

Still filing today

33%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyHealthReligionArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MU
    MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +201%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9k
  • IA
    INNOCENTS AT RISK
    2× · 2021–2022 · $9k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • AI
    ARCO IRIS FOUNDATION AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIV OF CAL BERKELEY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • MI
    MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +32%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Council of the Americas Inc

Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…

4
The George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom
Education
5
Washington International School

Our mission is to be an exemplary learning community - enriched by differences, informed through inquiry, global in reach.

Education
6
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
7
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Corporation of the Washington Latin School

To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.

Education
10
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Global Public Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Tunisia Aid. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARCO IRIS FOUNDATION AMERICA — $50,000 · OtherARCO IRIS FOUNDATION AMERICAMERIDIANORG — $50,000 · OtherMERIDIANORGUNIV OF CAL BERKELEY — $40,000 · OtherUNIV OF CAL BERKELEYFEDERATION OF SOUTH AFTRICAN WOMEN — $21,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherWASHINGTON CENTER FOR EDUCATION — $20,000 · OtherFED OF S AFRICAN WOMEN — $15,000 · Other+30 more — $185,137 · Other+30 moreMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $45,000 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVER…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $25,015 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIV…WASHINGTON GLOBAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationWASHINGTON GLOB…MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $32,000 · InternationalVISIONARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · International+1 more — $1,250 · InternationalBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $12,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,000 · HealthPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA — $10,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT100 DC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyALABASTER HOUSE INC — $5,150 · ReligionYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $5,150 · Arts & CultureTunisia Aid — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$421,337Education$80,015International$43,250Health$13,500Philanthropy$11,000Religion$5,150Arts & Culture$5,150Human Services$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $25,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetWASHINGTON GLOBAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINNOCENTS AT RISK — $8,539 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetALABASTER HOUSE INC — $5,150 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATREWASHINGTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE — $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT100 DC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VISIONARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WASHINGTON GLOBAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
  • Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA
  • Who funds INNOCENTS AT RISK
  • Who funds ALABASTER HOUSE INC
  • Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THEATREWASHINGTON

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sami & Annie Totah Family FoundationMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Azar Foundation For Children funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Azar Foundation For Children?

    Find your warmest path to The Azar Foundation For Children 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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