Virginia · Nonprofit
COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION
COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,544,814 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,301,736). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $74M
What Coptic Orphans Support Association does
Mission
Coptic orphans improves the lives of orphans and other vulnerable children in egypt by providing basic needs, education, and mentoring so that they may realize their potential to become productive members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coptic orphans' flagship program, not alone, serves over 19,799 orphans through a mentoring and nurturing relationship with one of coptic orphans' 1,014 church-based volunteer representatives ("reps"). Each child receives protection, support, and confidence that was lost when their father died or abandoned them. The emphasis of the not alone program is not on charity, but rather on the transformation of children and those around them.because coptic orphans focuses on education as the primary tool to empower children to become self-sufficient, well-adjusted adults, not alone prioritizes giving them literacy and other skills that help them succeed in school. The children are encouraged to develop their god-given talents so that they can overcome their own circumstances and transform future generations. Each of the reps is nominated by their bishop in the coptic orthodox church. The reps work with fatherless families in some of the most impoverished communities in egypt, from the slums of cairo to remote rural villages. Each rep has relationships with 15-25 children, and serves each by:- visiting the child on a regular basis in their home to assess and provide for basic needs and…
$17,123,364 spentof which $12,389,948 as grants88% of program spendingCommunity development program - the valuable girl project is a multi-faceted development program that targets marginalized girls and young women in high-poverty areas in egypt. Valuable girl's main goal is to empower girls on intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral levels by investing in their potential and enabling them to maximize their influence in their communities. The project brings together muslim and christian girls (ages 7 - 22) in a big sisterlittle sister mentorship arrangement that promotes peaceful co-existence, strengthens girls' understanding of their rights, improves academic retention rates, along with other positive social and economic outcomes. This unique opportunity empowers girls and young women to continue their education, raise their self-esteem, develop decision-making and leadership skills, raise awareness on gender-based violence and most importantly, reduce their social isolation and break the barriers of sectarianism.since its inception over 20 years ago, the project has operated in 214 sites across egypt and empowered more than 19,300 girls and young women. In the current cycle (2024-2026), the project operates in 30 locations in five…
$2,366,540 spentof which $1,837,959 as grants12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,489,904.
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 2020 to 2021, from $41M to $53M (+30%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Nermien Riad
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $62k → $670k.
17 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
92% 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 COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 45% · 2021 35% · 2022 39% · 2023 38% — 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
42% of COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
88% of COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION'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 $550k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Coptic Orphans Support Association (Canada) · exempt
- Coptic Orphans Australia Limited · exempt
- Coptic Orphans UK · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION?
- COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,544,814 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,301,736). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,544,814 in grants to COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,301,736 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPTIC ORPHANS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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