Hias Inc
Silver Spring, MD · EIN 13-5633307. Reported 102 grants totalling $113.0M to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Hias Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q710) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 81% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $632,894. Half of what it reported fell between $130,865 and $1,338,263; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $5,166,340. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $11.1M | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Services of Western New York | Buffalo, NY | $9,921,461 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc | Clearwater, FL | $8,864,375 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay | Concord, CA | $7,558,272 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family & Childrens Service | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,748,319 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service | Seattle, WA | $6,723,397 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hias & Council Migration Service of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $6,100,007 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $5,606,034 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| US Together Inc | Columbus, OH | $5,353,903 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency Inc | Charlotte, NC | $4,833,577 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts Inc | Springfield, MA | $4,716,951 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Commonpoint Ny Inc | Little Neck, NY | $3,719,010 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hias Foundation Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $3,452,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of Silicon Valley | Los Gatos, CA | $2,898,084 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Services of Greenwich Inc | Greenwich, CT | $2,894,594 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family and Childrens Service of Southern Arizona Inc | Tucson, AZ | $2,076,875 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater Harrisburg Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $1,801,170 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tulsa Congregation Bnai Emunah | Tulsa, OK | $1,773,133 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Giving Back Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $1,726,309 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Social Services of Madison Inc | Madison, WI | $1,642,904 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | Chicago, IL | $1,483,094 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Services of Delaware Inc | Wilmington, DE | $1,478,186 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc | North Miami, FL | $1,424,704 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $1,385,410 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Near West Side Multi Service Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $1,077,292 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | Denver, CO | $937,135 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family & Childrens Service of Long Beach-West Orange County | Long Beach, CA | $666,590 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc | Framingham, MA | $646,395 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Services | Columbus, OH | $561,324 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Refugepoint Inc | Boston, MA | $510,152 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hias Economic Advancement Fund Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $442,920 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asylumworks Inc | Washington, DC | $434,521 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Norwegian Refugee Council USA | Washington, DC | $427,424 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cadena Foundation | Hallandle Bch, FL | $396,566 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education | Chicago, IL | $220,785 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center | El Paso, TX | $219,871 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $212,775 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ceta Global Inc | Houston, TX | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Refugee Development Center Inc | Providence, RI | $131,341 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Endeavors Inc | San Antonio, TX | $113,714 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid Inc | Mercedes, TX | $111,535 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $104,352 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ayuda Inc | Washington, DC | $98,158 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project Inc | Tucson, AZ | $96,204 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc | El Paso, TX | $55,440 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Church World Service Inc | Elkhart, IN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| L Arche USA | Portland, OR | $22,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple B'nai Israel | Oklahoma City, OK | $14,120 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
31 of 49 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County
RESETTLEMENT AND PLACEMENT - Hias Foundation
PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED ENDOWMENTS - US Together Inc
REFUGEE RECEPTION & PLACEMENT - Giving Back Fund Inc
GENDER BASED VIOLENCE SUPPORT - Hias Economic Advancement Fund
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ENTREPRENEURS REFUGEES - Women's Refugee Commission Inc
ENHANCE ACCESS TO RIGHTS AND PROTECTION OF WOMEN, ADOLESCENT GIRLS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $9,306,043 | $277,817 |
| 2022 | 38 | $42.5M | $568,602 |
| 2023 | 40 | $61.2M | $1,056,268 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $632,894 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hias Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 40 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1300 Spring Street 500, Silver Spring, MD, 20910.
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