New York · Nonprofit
FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED
FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $918,187 to it, the largest being THE LOURIE FOUNDATION INC ($710,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $918k
- Net assets
- $465k
What Free Yezidi Foundation USA Incorporated does
Mission
The free yezidi foundation usa (the foundation) supports the yezidi community in the aftermath of the 2014 yezidi genocide. The foundation promotes the rights and well-being of yezidis in iraq and the diaspora, with an emphasis on women's empowerment, the pursuit of justice, and helping the community rebuild through trauma treatment, education, training, and economic development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation implemented several projects in 2023, including combating gender-based violence in the community, the pursuit of justice and accountability in the aftermath of the yezidi genocide, advancing yezidi survivors' access to trauma treatment and helping them access their rights, and livelihoods and educational activities at the fyf enterprise and training center. The foundation also continued its global advocacy work, conducting in-person and virtual events and consultations to help bolster support for yezidi recovery.
$868,271 spentof which $36,723 as grants$159,131 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $868,271.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $214k to $544k (+155%).
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: 2019 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 69% · 2023 28% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Pari Ibrahim
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $170k → $100k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 88% · 2022 86% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $950k on record.
- Department of State$950k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED: 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 FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED?
- FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $918,187 to it, the largest being THE LOURIE FOUNDATION INC ($710,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $918,187 in grants to FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED?
- THE LOURIE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $710,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing