Michigan · Nonprofit
GAZA SOUP KITCHEN
GAZA SOUP KITCHEN (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,122 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($283,311). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $584k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Gaza Soup Kitchen does
Mission
Gaza Soup Kitchen is dedicated to alleviating food and water insecurity and providing essential support services to vulnerable populations across the gaza strip in palestine.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Essential hot meals program purpose: responding to severe humanitarian conditions affecting vulnerable populations in the gaza strip. Operations: 1. Multi-site meal program across 5 major locations: gaza city, khan younis, north gaza, beach camp, sheikh radwan, and surrounding areas. 2. No volunteers participated in food preparation or distribution. 3. Each location utilized approximately 4 individual service providers plus 1 photographer, totaling around 20-25 paid individual service providers across the 5 sites. 4. Individual service providers were up to 30 workers who rotated across programs based on operational needs. Reach & flexibility: geographic spread allows the organization to serve diverse communities and respond to rapidly changing needs. Program focus: prepares and distributes hot meals and food parcels, delivered on-site or to hospitals for medical staff and patients. Scale: served an estimated 300 families per location daily. Priority populations: children, the elderly, and female-headed households most affected by the crisis. Impact: provides not only nutrition but also critical support, dignity, and hope to communities in extraordinary hardship.
$381,254 spent91% of program spendingClean drinking water program: 1. Distributed approximately 3,000 liters of clean drinking water per truck per distribution cycle. 2. Operated 4 water trucks, serving an estimated 60 families per truck (300 beneficiaries per truck). 3.estimated total daily beneficiaries: 1,500 people across all trucks combined. 4. Served 5 locations including: khan younis, al-nasr, sheikh radwan, al- zawaida, and surrounding areas in gaza. 5. A total of 8 paid individual service providers rotating across trucks (drivers, assistants, logistics, and support). 6. No volunteers participated in water distribution activities.
$31,471 spent8% of program spendingMedical point program - beit lahia 1. Operated one medical point located in beit lahia, delivering essential and basic medical services. 2. Served an estimated 50-70 patients daily, primarily vulnerable groups such as elderly individuals, children, and low-income families. 3. Utilized individual service providers: 1 physician, 1 nurse, 1 nurse assistant, 1 administrative clerk, 1 cleaner, and 1 photographer/documentation staff. 4. Total individual service providers is 6 paid operating the medical point daily. 5. No volunteers were involved.
$4,500 spent1% of program spendingEducation support point - north gaza (beit lahia) 1. Operated one educational support point in north gaza (beit lahia), offering tutoring and remedial learning for children. 2. Served approximately 600 students across multiple grade levels. 3. Utilized a total of 6 class teachers, 1 secretary, 1 cleaner, and school manager.
$889 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $418,114.
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
Roa Alhelou
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 GAZA SOUP KITCHEN’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
GAZA SOUP KITCHEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 GAZA SOUP KITCHEN.
“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
96% of GAZA SOUP KITCHEN'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GAZA SOUP KITCHEN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GAZA SOUP KITCHEN
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAZA SOUP KITCHEN?
- GAZA SOUP KITCHEN (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,122 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($283,311). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GAZA SOUP KITCHEN have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $584,122 in grants to GAZA SOUP KITCHEN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAZA SOUP KITCHEN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $283,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAZA SOUP KITCHEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 14 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