Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,406,814 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,217,589). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 177
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Syrian American Medical Society Foundation does
Mission
We are dedicated to delivering life-saving services, revitalizing health systems during crisis and promoting medical education via a network of humanitarians in syria, the us, and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Medical relief programs: the foundation organizes and facilitates medical missions to allow physicians, sams members, medical students, and volunteers to participate in medical and surgical missions throughout the year. Medical professionals travel to the region to support ongoing medical relief programs and provide healthcare to syrians living in refugee camps and in urban areas across jordan, lebanon, iraq, turkey, and greece. As well as provide medical service to gaza.the foundation continued to provide primary and specialized care in seven countries, with major operations in syria, turkey, lebanon, and jordan. In 2024, sams provided over 4.4 million medical services to those in acute need, with an average cost of $14.30 per service.
$63,482,479 spentof which $34,505,160 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,482,479.
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 $19M to $40M (+114%).
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 36% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 47% · 2021 47% · 2022 36% · 2023 14% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Board chair
Dr Basel Termanini
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 102 funders, grant income rose $2.4M → $7.5M.
50 of 177 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 177 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 FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
79% 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 SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 27% · 2019 37% · 2020 25% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2023 16% — 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
23% of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
65% of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION'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 $6.1M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.3M on record.
- Department of State$17.3M
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 SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Syrian American Medical Society · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
- SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,406,814 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,217,589). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 177 organizations giving $17,406,814 in grants to SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,217,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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.
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 177 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