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SHAI FUND INC

SHAI FUND INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,429,700 to it, the largest being MERCURY ONE INC ($1,878,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$2.5M
4/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Shai Fund Inc does

Mission

Shai fund brings peace, safety, and stability to vulnerable communities living in conflict and crisis, offering them hope and the opportunity to rebuild their lives.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The syria relief fund responds to the urgent humanitarian crisis across syria by providing critical aid to families affected by ongoing conflict, displacement, and the aftermath of the decades long civil war. Relief work focuses on emergency relief, medical care, and long-term recovery to help communities rebuild and thrive. Since 2015, shai fund has been actively engaged in syria, providing critical humanitarian assistance and strengthening food security for over 90,000 people at risk.

    $337,176 spentof which $321,827 as grants
    33% of program spending
  2. The israel crisis relief fund is designed to assist the israeli people after the attack of hamas from gaza. This program is designed to provide assistance in three ways: 1. Evacuating those needing to relocate out of the crisis zone 2. Returning foreign israeli's back to israel to aid their home country 3. Sending humanitarian aid, such as food, water, medical supplies, etc. To those in need who have evacuated the crisis zones.

    $102,566 spentof which $45,160 as grants
    10% of program spending
  3. Shai fund worked in 11 countries including afghanistan, armenia, ethiopia, iraq, israel, myanmar, somalia, sudan, syria, turkey and the united states of america in 2024 with humanitarian programming that assisted a total of 42,519 people. The humanitarian aid included assistance given in training and education for 78 persons, medical for 21,515 persons, relief with food and non-food items for 208 persons, shelter for 204 persons, livelihood and job creation for 167 persons, protection programs for 57 persons, combatting forced/child marriages for 2 persons, culture and education programs for 12,203 persons, food security for 12,941 persons and water and sanitation hygiene (wash) for 4,485 persons.

    $584,454 spentof which $461,625 as grants
    57% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,024,196.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($271k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 100 ($260k)2018 Revenue 100 ($271k) Expenses 97 ($221k) Net assets 119 ($311k)2019 Revenue 324 ($877k) Expenses 176 ($399k) Net assets 296 ($770k)2020 Revenue 192 ($521k) Expenses 241 ($545k) Net assets 286 ($746k)2021 Revenue 1278 ($3.5M) Expenses 1013 ($2.3M) Net assets 735 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 1322 ($3.6M) Expenses 1186 ($2.7M) Net assets 1078 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 1004 ($2.7M) Expenses 1411 ($3.2M) Net assets 896 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 631 ($1.7M) Expenses 680 ($1.5M) Net assets 961 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (631)Expenses (680)Net assets (961)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $758k to $2.6M (+245%).

$308k
$318k
$939k
$758k
$2.6M
$2.9M
$2.4M
$2.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of SHAI FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$50k
’18
$478k
’19
−$24k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$895k
’22
−$475k
’23
$171k
’24
20
months of
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.

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Listed33333444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $1.3M.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SHAI FUND INC’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

SHAI FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 SHAI FUND INC.

77%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 83% · 2023 93% — 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

0% of SHAI FUND INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

SHAI FUND INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 8 states in all.

WA
NY
PA
CO
VA
TN
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SHAI FUND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve20.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 19%Fundraising 14%

Governance

4
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

54%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

ND
NY
TN
DC

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHAI FUND INC?
SHAI FUND INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,429,700 to it, the largest being MERCURY ONE INC ($1,878,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHAI FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,429,700 in grants to SHAI FUND INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHAI FUND INC?
MERCURY ONE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,878,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHAI FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 13 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