Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261,669 to it, the largest being THE RAZZAK FOUNDATION ($149,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $502k
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $338k
What Syrian American Medical Society does
Mission
To build and foster a network of medical professionals in the united states and beyond and provide the educational, networking, and professional services they need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sams held two national conferences: orlando and dc, and one international conference in istanbul. The conferences gather renowned medical professionals, educators, and public figures to share expertise and experiences, gain an in-depth perspective on challenges in medical relief, and address current updates and innovations in medicine. Additionally, the conferences provide a great opportunity to acquire continuing medical education (cme) credits, raise funds to support syrians in need, stay up-to-date on the crisis in syria, and innovative humanitarian and relief work for sams and our partners.
Advocacy: sams has become a leader in advocacy and engagement with policymakers on both the national and the international stage. Sams effectively advocates to increase political will around taking action to end the syrian crisis. Our advocacy ensures that instances of attacks on the healthcare facilities, challenges of communities under siege, and their heroic work of syrian medical workers reach policymakers, think tanks, the media, and the public. Sams strives to echo and raise the voice of our colleagues on the ground who continue to risk their safety to save lives and alleviate suffering.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 $275k to $402k (+46%).
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.
20% of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
David Lillie
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $49k → $426k.
1 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Syrian American Medical Society Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 47% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 15% — 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
24% of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Syrian American Medical Society Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: 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 SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY?
- SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261,669 to it, the largest being THE RAZZAK FOUNDATION ($149,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $1,261,669 in grants to SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY?
- THE RAZZAK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $149,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 70 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