Maryland · Nonprofit
BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC (Maryland) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,955,337 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($762,697). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington Inc does
Mission
To provide charitable support of people with medical needs. Also, to educate the community as to the support needed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization s exempt purpose is to assist families who need assistance with general support and medical needs. This may take the form of food, medical bills, transportation to medical facilities or the use of medical equipment.
$443,095 spentof which $31,047 as grants90% of program spendingThe bernard creeger bikur cholim house is maintained for jewish patients being treated at the nih clinical center along with their family members and caregivers. The house will help patients and family members who require extended stays or have religious needs that cannot be completely met in other types of lodging.
$48,015 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $491,110.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $3.3M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Audrey Siegel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $261k → $334k.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 42% · 2021 51% · 2022 37% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $459k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC?
- BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC (Maryland) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,955,337 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($762,697). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,955,337 in grants to BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $762,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing