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SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM
SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,060,432 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($574,537). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $715k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $404k
What Salaam Cultural Museum does
Mission
Salamm cultural meuseum mission is to gather and publish information on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and to promote understanding of the people, cultures, languages, religions, and lands of this region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Salamm became a registered NGO in Jordan, this certification gives the company a greater ability to operate in the region: making easier to bring in supplies, equipment, medications, and other donated goods.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Medical Mission; In 2016 SCM conducted one mission to Jordan and then moved our operations to Greece. An assessment team was sent to the island of Lesbos in late August of 2015 to see what services SCM could provide. The team consisted of several past members of our missions, including doctors, first responders, humanitarians, and logistics personnel. From the beginning of October 2015 SCM maintained a continuous presence on the island of Lesbos to aid the refugees making the dangerous crossing from Turkey to Greece. Our expenditures for this operation included the cost of sending the initial assessment team, then the expenses to maintain one coordinator on the ground at all times transportation, lodging, food a van for the team to get around in, fuel, medical and humanitarian supplies, food for the refugees, medications, etc. We also had expenses of excess baggage to transport as much as we could to excess baggage to transport as much as we could to of excess baggage to transport as much as we could to the teams with incoming volunteers. Nonmedical team members provided psychosocial relief to various locations for women and children
$75,701 spent22% of program spendingHumanitarian Aid Shipments SCM sent several containers to Jordan in 2018 containing humanitarian supplies donated to SCM by our supporters. Items included medical equipment, school supplies, clothing, new blankets and handmade quilts, toys, and other miscellaneous items needed in the camps or at clinics we are in contact with. Additional items were sent to Jordan and Greece in the suitcases of volunteers traveling to those countries. SCM helped pay for some of the excess baggage fees for those carrying SCM supplies. These supplies included medications and other urgently needed items that would not endure transoceanic shipping in a container.
$207,903 spent59% of program spendingFood Drive; In 2016 SCM continued its food aid program, doing several distributions in Jordan and also partnering with another organization in Lebanon to provide Over 10,000 tons of flour were purchased and distributed to community bakeries to make bread for the needy food aid there and at the border region to Syrian refugees. The World Food Program has seen severe cuts to its programs and this has resulted in a significant reduction in the food aid the UN is able to provide to refugees. SCM will continue to work to supplement the needs of the refugees through distributions of packages of food and partnering with other organizations to maximize our reach in getting food to the most vulnerable refugees. We also provided some food on a limited basis to refugees arriving on the island of Lesbos through the end of the year.
$6,000 spent2% of program spendingOther Humaniterian projects; undertaken in 2018 include partnering with IHR in Lebanon to provide a school building at a refugee camp there, emergency medical procedure funding for refugees in need of emergency/urgent lifesaving treatments, coordinating donations of medications from our partner Direct Relief to clinics and hospitals in Jordan, supporting educational programs at Zaatari refugee camp, and promoting awareness of the refugee crisis through social media, our website, and presentations.SCM also provide help & support to Syrian refugees residing in state of Washington.
$60,271 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $349,875.
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.
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 $185k to $371k (+101%).
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 6% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $57k → $211k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 31% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 72% — 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
67% of SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
95% of SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.
Organizations like SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM: 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 SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM?
- SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,060,432 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($574,537). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,060,432 in grants to SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $574,537 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALAAM CULTURAL MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing