· Private foundation
The Azar Foundation For Children
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERIDIANORG | $50,000 |
| WASHINGTON CENTER FOR EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| Lissencephaly Research and Callie C | $11,900 |
| GEORGTOWN UNIVERSITRY | $11,000 |
| 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 |
| WASHINGTON GLOBAL PUBLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| ALABASTER HOUSE | $5,150 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of The Azar Foundation For Children’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 12%.
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 +201% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +201%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $9k
- IAINNOCENTS AT RISK2× · 2021–2022 · $9k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- AIARCO IRIS FOUNDATION AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $50k
- UOUNIV OF CAL BERKELEYone grant, 2023 · $40k
- MIMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +22%
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.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 51 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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GLOBAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA ↗
- Who funds VISIONARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Azar Foundation For Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Azar Foundation For Children. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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