Maryland · Nonprofit
HIAS INC
HIAS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1066 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,707,428 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($36,347,935). 613 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108M
- Funders on record
- 1,066
- Grants received
- $125M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Hias Inc does
Mission
Hias is the international jewish nonprofit that stands for a world in which forcibly displaced people find welcome, safety, and opportunity.(continued on schedule o)there have never been more people seeking safety and so few places willing to protect and welcome them. Over 120 million people are forcibly displaced in the world today. For over 100 years, hias has been there for refugees when and where they need help most. We are a jewish humanitarian organization that works in the united states and internationally, providing vital services to refugees and vulnerable migrants so they can rebuild their lives. In 2025, our country portfolio changed from 25 countries at the start of the calendar year to 12 by year-end.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
U.s. Program service accomplishments: through hias' national resettlement and integration work in the united states, as well as its economic and social services, hias helps forcibly displaced people in their economic and social inclusion in the united states. (continued on schedule o)through our national resettlement network of 30 affiliates, hias provided clients with new programming and resources to support their full economic and social inclusion in the united states. Hias' economic inclusion programs take a holistic approach by supporting and empowering clients through early employment or entrepreneurship, while simultaneously enhancing their financial capability to achieve long-term economic independence. Hias works with clients, not only to gain new skills for optimal employment and a changing workforce, but also to build their financial knowledge, savings, and assets --such as for purchasing a vehicle or home, starting a business, or saving for higher education. Across a range of industries, hias partners work with local and national employers to integrate refugees into the workforce and provide training for career development and upward mobility. Our network of affiliates…
$68,472,708 spentof which $53,515,530 as grants$1,766,839 earned by the program77% of program spendingInternational program service accomplishments: hias delivers critical services to forcibly displaced populations that provide relief from crisis, and support them in rebuilding their lives with dignity. (continued on schedule o)as a result of their experiences - from uprooting their lives to surviving or witnessing violence - many refugees need urgent services as well as long-term support in order to gain greater stability and rebuild their lives.hias partners closely with domestic and international leadership, like the u.s. Department of state and the united nations high commissioner for refugees, as well as refugee agencies and human rights groups. Our well-established partnerships enable us to share our expertise, achieve our advocacy objectives, and maximize our impact. Legal status is critical for refugees. Without legal status, refugees are forced to live on the margins of society, lacking healthcare, education, dignified work, or safe shelter - sometimes for generations. In response to the hundreds of thousands of sudanese refugees who have fled to eastern chad, hias has employed a multifaceted approach centered on risk mitigation, responsive action, and proactive…
$20,389,673 spentof which $5,039,472 as grants23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,862,381.
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 $132M to $95M (−28%).
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: 2017 43% · 2018 38% · 2019 38% · 2020 36% · 2021 34% · 2022 68% · 2023 64% · 2024 58% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HIAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Tamar Newberger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 137 funders to 425 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $12M.
112 of 1066 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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: $18M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hias Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HIAS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HIAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1066 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
HIAS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 HIAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 10% · 2019 25% · 2020 12% · 2021 71% · 2022 29% · 2023 12% — 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
41% of HIAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
60% of HIAS 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 $50M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 45 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75M arriving through sponsors registered in 36 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
HIAS INC has grown faster than half of the 59 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HIAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $473.3M on record — $472.7M federal, $604k state.
- Department of State$269.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$201.3M
- Agency for International Development$2.1M
- Grant$604k
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 HIAS 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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Hias Israel · exempt
- Hias Aruba · exempt
- Hias Guyana Inc · exempt
- Foundation Hias Colombia · exempt
- Hias Mexico Ac · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIAS 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 HIAS INC?
- HIAS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1066 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,707,428 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($36,347,935). 613 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1066 organizations giving $124,707,428 in grants to HIAS INC, 613 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIAS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $36,347,935 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIAS 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.
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 1066 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