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The M J Saad Family Foundation at a glance

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The M J Saad 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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$311kEducation$56kFood & Nutrition$18kReligion$15kHuman Services$14kHousing & Shelter$13kInternational$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $1k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BATHESDA HOSPITAL$50,000
THE MARIST BROTHERS$200
Individual grant recipient$200
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$200
ASSOCIATION OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL$200
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED$200
FECC$200
FATHER OF SACRED HEART$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%MAKE-A-WISH INTERNATIONAL: $100 → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%ISLAND HARVEST: $200 → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$351k · 33 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
60

Total granted

$351k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+26%

Still filing today

52%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BH
    Bethesda Hospital Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +125%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • FA
    FRIENDS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +4%
  • GV
    GREEN VALE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -17%
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
7
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
11
Sunset Park Health Council Inc

The mission of the family health centers at nyu langone is to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by delivering high quality, culturally-competent primary car, and related services within community-based settings.

Health
12
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nokomis Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bethesda Hospital Inc: $275,000 · HealthBethesda Hospital Inc+5 more: $8,450 · HealthTHE HOMELESS COALITION PBC: $11,000 · OtherTHE HOMELESS COA…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $8,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER …AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6,200 · OtherAMERICAN RED CRO…ST JOHNS ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherST JOHNS ORTHODO…SMILE TRAIN INC: $3,100 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION: $2,250 · Other+60 more: $30,985 · Other+60 moreFRIENDS ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationFRIENDS ACADE…GREEN VALE SCHOOL: $13,000 · EducationGREEN VALE SC…+5 more: $1,400 · EducationWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,100 · Human ServicesCaridad Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,300 · Human Services+3 more: $400 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $3,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF EGYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,700 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,350 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,300 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,300 · International+3 more: $600 · InternationalTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC: $1,000 · ReligionChristian Herald Association Inc: $200 · Religion
Health$283,450Other$66,535Education$54,400Human Services$16,800Food & Nutrition$15,000International$13,250Religion$1,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBethesda Hospital Inc: $275,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF EGYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCaridad Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPBELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Rescue Mission: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOYS FOR TOTS INC: $450 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOKOMIS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Bethesda Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GREEN VALE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF EGYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH CANCER ↗
  • Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC ↗

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.

Alexander and Linda M…Lourdes Mercy Foundat…Mutual of America Fou…Verizon FoundationRcp FoundationAnastasia & KR Jenkin…Monica Heaney Nackard…James J Capone Charit…The A&S Giancristofar…Grace and Li Yu Famil…The Salem FoundationAbbVie Foundation
Alexander and Linda Milley FoundationNH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation · Lourdes Mercy Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Rcp Foundation · Anastasia & KR Jenkins Foundation · Monica Heaney Nackard Foundation · James J Capone Charitable Foundati · The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · Grace and Li Yu Family Foundation · The Salem Foundation · AbbVie Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The M J Saad Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The M J Saad Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Caridad Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Bethesda Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 98 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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