Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC
UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 229 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,208,020 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,885,322). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 229
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Unrwa USA National Committee Inc does
Mission
The unrwa usa mission is to lift up the voices and experiences of palestine refugees, secure american support for resources essential to their well-being, and advocate for a better life for them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grant program - unrwa usa prioritizes our program funding through four technical pillars: 1)education + training, 2)health (including mental health), 3)protection, and 4)emergency response. Education funding supported university scholarships for over 100 students and school-based mental health support for over 89,000 conflict-affected children. Health funding supported the furnishing and re-opening of a war-damaged health clinic in syria. Protection funds provided shelter repair and temporary housing to internally displaced refugees in syria and the west bank, as well as non-food items in gaza. Emergency response funds supported food parcels for over 237,000 people in gaza, as well as cash assistance for refugees in extreme poverty in lebanon, jordan, and syria.
$44,366,598 spentof which $44,366,700 as grants95% of program spendingOther programs - building awareness about the plight of palestine refugees and the essential food, health, housing, education, and protection services that unrwa provides to this population through education and awareness building activities.
$2,242,229 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,608,827.
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 $1.4M to $8.9M (+554%).
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.
100% of UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Mara Kronenfeld
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 78 funders, grant income rose $96k → $3.2M.
55 of 229 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 229 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
UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
86% 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 UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 30% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 31% · 2022 33% · 2023 24% — 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
46% of UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
79% of UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE 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 $5.2M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 35 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M 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
UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE 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
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 8 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC?
- UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 229 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,208,020 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,885,322). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 229 organizations giving $26,208,020 in grants to UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC, 98 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,885,322 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE 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.
Play a game about who funds Unrwa USA National Committee →
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 229 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