Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE
SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,627 to it, the largest being M NIGHT SHYAMALAN FOUNDATION INC ($354,190). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $912k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Syrian Emergency Task Force does
Mission
To help build democracy in syria through advocacy, support of transitional justice and accountability, humanitarian initiatives and development and supporting the syrian people's efforts to establish a representative government that ensures a peaceful and inclusive future for all syrians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Setf continue to fully support the orphanage in the northern part of syria, new orphans were added providing shelter, food, education, medical needs. Setf continue with womens rehab center offering conventional training for women and providing daily needs to so many families inside syria.
$614,500 spent$596,535 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $614,500.
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 2021 to 2022, from $205k to $923k (+351%).
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: 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $76k → $189k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 EMERGENCY TASK FORCE’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
SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 EMERGENCY TASK FORCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 67% · 2019 87% · 2020 61% · 2021 94% · 2022 46% · 2023 33% — 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
60% of SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 EMERGENCY TASK FORCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k 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.
Against its field
SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE has grown faster than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE: 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 EMERGENCY TASK FORCE?
- SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,627 to it, the largest being M NIGHT SHYAMALAN FOUNDATION INC ($354,190). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $911,627 in grants to SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE?
- M NIGHT SHYAMALAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $354,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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