New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC (New York) receives grants from 990 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,684,589 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($44,013,771). 403 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79M
- Funders on record
- 990
- Grants received
- $168M
- Net assets
- $85M
What Friends of United Hatzalah Inc does
Mission
Friends of united hatzalah, inc .(fouh) raises and provides funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide medical and trauma-related first responder services in israel and around the world. Fouh focuses the majority of its support on united hatzalah of israel (uh) and its core of volunteers. Uh is israel's largest independent, non-profit volunteer emergency medical service that serves anyone in need of care, entirely for free. Uh's mission is to save lives in israel, and at times around the world, by responding to medical emergencies within the first critical minutes of a medical crisis. Their 8,000+ volunteers - including emts, paramedics, doctors and other specialists - provide lifesaving medical care on the scene, prior to the arrival of an ambulance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Friends of united hatzalah, inc. (fouh) raises and provides funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide medical and trauma-related first responder services in israel and around the world. Fouh focuses the majority of its support on united hatzalah of israel (uh) and its core of volunteers. Uh is israel's largest independent, non-profit volunteer emergency medical service that serves anyone in need of care, entirely for free. Fouh funds a program supporting uh volunteers in israel. This program support activities including training, recognition, and social events for uh volunteers.
$30,163,898 spentof which $26,222,619 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,163,898.
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 2022 to 2023, from $52M to $97M (+87%).
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 1% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Mark Gerson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 59 funders to 538 funders, grant income rose $5.3M → $34M.
70 of 990 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $27M from 64 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 990 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
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
61% 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 FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 74% · 2019 57% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 27% · 2023 11% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
53% of FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH 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 $78M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 41 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Israel Rescue Coalition Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC?
- FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC (New York) receives grants from 990 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,684,589 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($44,013,771). 403 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC have?
- IRS filings report 990 organizations giving $167,684,589 in grants to FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC, 403 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $44,013,771 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC 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.
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 990 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