Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC
UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,551,178 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,521,012). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $121M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $11M
What United Palestinian Appeal Inc does
Mission
United palestinian appeal, inc. (upa) is a new york not-for-profit, non-political, tax exempt charity committed to providing social services to impoverished palestinians residing in the west bank, jordan, gaza strip and in lebanese refugee camps. Founded in 1978, upa has supported wide-ranging humanitarian programs that catered to needy palestinians within these regions. Its programs fall into four main areas: health care, education & undergraduate scholarships, child sponsorship, and community development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health and welfare - all expenses incurred for health projects including mobile clinics, primary care clinics as well as services including emergency food distribution, medical visits, pharmaceuticals, and trauma counseling for palestinians in the west bank, gaza and refugee camps in the arab countries. Expenses incurred also include projects that directly benefit handicapped, orphaned, or extremely deprived children through programs conducted by upa's partners.
$114,448,730 spentof which $107,323,605 as grants100% of program spendingCommunity development - all expenses incurred to rebuild and rehabilitate palestinian community infrastructures as well as environmental and agricultural projects, and to implement micro-enterprise, micro-finance and other projects that stimulate employment.
$139,638 spent0% of program spendingOutreach and public information - all expenses incurred to educate the general public and raise awareness about plalestinian history, language, and culture.
$335,060 spent0% of program spendingEducation and scholarships - financial assistance in the form of university scholarships, work study opportunities, and fellowships and vocational training provided to needy palestinian students who are living in or intend to return to palestine.
$37,615 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,961,043.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.5M to $16M (+87%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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
Saleem Zaru
Executive director
Board chair
Isam Salah
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $116k → $1.1M.
21 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 17% · 2019 23% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 34% · 2023 23% — 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
48% of UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
62% of UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC'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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 98 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 98 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC
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
98% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: 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 UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC?
- UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,551,178 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,521,012). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $7,551,178 in grants to UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,521,012 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC 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 90 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