Nebraska · Nonprofit
YAZDA
YAZDA (Nebraska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,265 to it, the largest being THE ANTIQUITIES COALITION ($103,567). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $505k
- Net assets
- $346k
What Yazda does
Mission
To support the Yazidi Community after the genocidal campaign in August 2014 . The goal is to help thousands of displaced families and individuals that have been uprooted from their homeland. Yazda provides humanitarian aid, psych, and social assistance and medical clinic.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Code: TJRUSG23 - This a project to continue with the existing work for the Yazidi Survivors Law (YSL) which represents a landmark step toward justice and reparations for survivors of ISIL atrocities. The law aims to deliver material, psychological, and symbolic support to survivors, yet its implementation remains slow. Yazda's ongoing project seeks to empower survivors by facilitating access to their rights under the YSL and promoting survivor-centered transitional justice in Iraq. This project focuses on enabling ISIL survivors-especially women and children-to access reparations under the Yazidi Survivors Law. It combines legal aid, psychosocial support, and advocacy for justice and reintegration.
$497,402 spentof which $471,791 as grants$525,282 earned by the program49% of program spending(Code: SVM23) -Yazda began offering essential health services in Sinjar in early 2015. Due to the widespread devastation of infrastructure, a Mobile Medical Unit was established for operations. Since April 2018, the project has been funded by the Dutch donor SV. This Sinjar-based mobile medical unit provides basic healthcare to 14 villages on the mountain's north side. The team sees patients for a variety of primary health concerns, including chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension. They offer roughly 1,300-2,000 consultations monthly to a community of 7,000-10,000 people, operating five days a week in the villages of Adeeka, Tairaf, Aldeenah, Kharbah, Qane, Bayeev, Naqsay, Bakrah, Kormale, Zerwa, Bakhilif, Shorka, Gurmiz, and Karse. The majority of these villages are remote, and many households lack cars or any means of transportation. he project received additional funding in August 2023. Project Details (SVM22): Delivers the complete range of primary healthcare services, integrating non-communicable and mental healthcare. Aims to identify and manage the most prevalent NCD and MH conditions as close to patients as possible, even in hard-to-reach and insecure…
$240,812 spentof which $228,413 as grants$249,159 earned by the program24% of program spending(Code: IOM23) Return of Displaced in Nineveh - Yazda joined forces with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to support the return and reintegration of displaced people in Nineveh Plains and West Nineveh. This USAID-funded project utilizes a multi-pronged approach for a sustainable return, encompassing: * Livelihood and Economic Independence: Helping returnees establish themselves financially. * Access to Services: Ensuring returnees have the resources they need. * Social Cohesion: Fostering a sense of community among returnees. * Psychosocial Support (PSS): Providing mental health services to those who have experienced trauma. * Diaspora Engagement: Connecting returnees with Yazidi communities abroad. * Administrative Support: Assisting returnees with navigating bureaucracy. To oversee these activities, Yazda opens a new office in Sinune, focusing on large collective villages north of Sinjar and Sinjar City itself. Mental Health Services: Two Psychosocial Support Therapists are hired in Sinune to begin case management and provide support sessions in 2021. Livelihood Support: Thirteen locations are chosen for livelihood support, including nine villages on the north…
$218,641 spentof which $207,380 as grants$228,413 earned by the program21% of program spending(Code: NBL24) - Project Description: Nobody's Listening is a groundbreaking Virtual Reality experience and immersive exhibition programme by Yazda, a Yazidi charity, and Upstream, a VR company, that commemorates the atrocities by ISIS against the Yazidi community in the summer of 2014 in northern Iraq. Using cutting-edge Virtual Reality technology, photography and art, the exhibition explores the consequences of the ISIS atrocities, including sexual violence. Above all, Nobody's Listening pays tribute to the courage, determination and agency of the survivors, and gives them a space where they can be heard.
$34,313 spentof which $32,710 as grants$40,500 earned by the program3% of program spending(Code: JIY22) - Funding received for the Community and Mental Health program for children. Fund was received at the end of the previous financial year and has been used to support the project objectives in this calendar year.
$29,431 spentof which $27,915 as grants$31,591 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,020,599.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $61k to $330k (+439%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 36% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YAZDA’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. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Haider Elias
Board President & Treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $197k → $21k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 YAZDA’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
YAZDA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 YAZDA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 72% · 2019 61% · 2020 50% · 2021 98% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — 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
9% of YAZDA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
YAZDA draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
YAZDA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding YAZDA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of State$870k
- Department of Health and Human Services$311k
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 YAZDA
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YAZDA: 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 YAZDA?
- YAZDA (Nebraska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,265 to it, the largest being THE ANTIQUITIES COALITION ($103,567). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YAZDA have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $505,265 in grants to YAZDA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YAZDA?
- THE ANTIQUITIES COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $103,567 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YAZDA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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