Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$426,306

Total expenses

$451,227

Contributions and grants received

$425,440

Grants paid

$324,007

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,266

Other revenue

-$400

Total assets, end of year

$378,387

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$378,387

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$404,774

Management and general expenses

$18,212

Fundraising expenses

$28,241

Program service expenses (Part III)

$404,774

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• During 2022, Blossom Hill Foundation sponsored 16 programs implemented by 20 fellows:1 - Montessori Early Childhood Center in Jordan: This is an Early Childhood Center to support early academic and behavioral needs of young refugees and other vulnerable children through alternative education activities inspired by Montessori methods. The Blossom Hill Early Education Center enrolled 60 children ages 3-5 in Azraq, Jordan.2 - Science United Project in Greece: This program provides a science curriculum with science kits that transcend language barriers. The program delivered 100 kits to 23 students and completed 4 training sessions for 21 teachers. 3 - College Coaching Youth Empowerment for Syrian and Iraqi youth: This program is designed to prepare refugee high school students for higher education in the United States. It provides TOEFL and SAT preparation classes, as well as one-on-one mentoring through the college application process. A total of 168 students enrolled in this program.4 - Global voice for Autism in Jordan: This initiative is focused on equipping refugee families with children (ages 3-11) on the autism spectrum or with developmental disabilities with tools to support their education so they can be included and community activities. So far the program has reached 23 Syrian families: 39 parents, 44 siblings, 26 children, ages 4.5-11, excluded from school due to autism, with training, capacity-building and programming.5 - Early Childhood Education in Egypt: This early childhood education program curates a customized culturally relevant curriculum based on Montessori and Waldorf principles to benefit refugee children. It is available on a downloadable app and is being rolled out in a school. The program also conducts workshops for parents. To date, it has reached 24 caregivers and 48 children. 6 - El Sistema - Blossom Hill Beginners Orchestra in Greece: This is a youth orchestra that promotes social inclusion of refugee children in Greek society. 90 students have been enrolled for music classes and orchestra performances.7 - Sports for All and Fearless Girls in Jordan: This program brings refugee children and youth from all parts of the world together with Jordanians to play soccer and basketball. Through their love of sports, this program is working to integrate them and promote inclusion. So far, 15 children have participated in soccer.8 - Makan Initiative in the West Bank: This program provides critical group and individual therapy to children in 6 refugee camps in the West bank benefiting 180 children with ind. therapy, 600 children with group therapy, and 180 caregivers with workshops, and 60 community based organizations. The children, through interactive play, can heal from the trauma of conflict. They have the opportunity to explore, examine, and express their imagination and process their feelings.9 - Girls SOAR in Syria: Using a UN-approved curriculum, this program seeks to empower Syrian girls internally displaced in the northwest part of the country. Through various consecutive modules, girls learn their rights, build leadership skills, gain self-confidence. The goal of the program is to get them back/keep them in school or attend vocational training and to prevent early marriage. 10 - Blossom Hill Pads in Afghanistan: To address period poverty, which prevents many Afghan girls from attending school and other activities, this program employs Afghan women to create reusable environmentally-friendly pads that are distributed to marginalized girls in the country. The program will benefit 6,000 girls.11 - Healthy Children Program in Afghanistan: This program provides health care services in hygiene and preventable illnesses (malaria, malnutrition, diarrhea) in two clinics serving the most marginalized populations near Kabul. They expect to reach 2,500 children and mothers. 12 - Recoded in multiple Middle Eastern countries: This program provides intensive coding boot camp in multiple areas as well as introductory workshops for conflict affected youth in multiple Middle Eastern countries. They expect to reach 450 students in boot camps, 350 students in career coaching, 1000 students in workshops, 4,750 in their job search program.13 - ANKAA Vocational Training Center in Greece: This program creates sustainable livelihoods for displaced people through the provision of numerous vocational training and language workshops that lead to employment. The program enrolled 105 students so far who are taking classes in Greek, English, IT, beekeeping, bike repair, tailoring.14 - Literacy and Tailoring program in Afghanistan: This program aims to empower internally displaced girls in Kabul, Afghanistan to become literate and earn a livelihood through tailoring.. The program's goal is to bring positive change and alleviate poverty in their lives. A total of 50 girls have enrolled in the program. Girls who completed the program are already earning a living.15 - Coding for Girls in Afghanistan - The first, one and only coding school for girls in Afghanistan provides courses in graphic design and coding for 250 girls in Herat, Afghanistan. The girls are able to earn well above the minimum $150 average monthly salary in Afghanistan, thereby avoiding early marriage and earning a livelihood. 16 - Mobile Info Team in Greece: By using technology, including FB, this program provides vital information, clarification, and assistance in the most relevant languages (Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu, Sorani and French) for refugees seeking asylum and family reunification. It also handles individual cases through their lawyers. MIT has an average of 776 beneficiaries per month, 3,288 new individuals a year, 74 asylum/reunification cases a year.Total $245,000

  Expenses $245,000 · Grants $245,000

• Program services, which are not allocated to grants.

  Expenses $80,767

• Blossom Hill Foundation, Inc.Form 990 2022Program Service AccomplishmentsDuring 2022, Blossom Hill Foundation provided operating grants to seven organizations:1 - Formally: This technology platform provides an intuitive form-filler translated into 100 languages, including Arabic and Farsi, to break bureaucratic barriers and make immigration, health, employment and education accessible for refugees and asylum seekers. 10,000 clients benefited from this platform.2 - ANKAA Vocational Training Center in Greece: This program creates sustainable livelihoods for displaced people through the provision of numerous vocational training and language workshops that lead to employment. The program enrolled 113 students who are taking 1-3 classes. Students are offered English and Greek classes, computer, media, cooking as well as workshops in tailoring, carpentry, metalwork, screen-printing, jewelry, electricity, and bike repair. ANKAA students made masks for hospitals and organizations working with vulnerable groups, camps, detention centers, etc.3 - Science United Project in Greece: This program provides a science curriculum with science kits that transcend language barriers. The program delivered 2473 kits for 712 students and conducted 11 workshops for 48 teachers. The kits included videos, translated science vocabulary documents in multiple languages, and activity plans. The inaugural Science United Festival had 10 teachers and 130 refugee students from Greece and 1 teacher and 50 refugee students from Jordan as participants.4 - El Sistema - Blossom Hill Beginners Orchestra in Greece: This is a youth orchestra that promotes social inclusion of refugee children in Greek society. A total of 75 students enrolled, 35 girls and 40 boys. Performances and classes resumed in person and were very successful. 5 - Mobile Info Team in Greece: By using technology, including FB, this program provides vital information, clarification, and assistance in the most relevant languages (Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu, Sorani and French) for refugees seeking asylum and family reunification. They had over 500,000 interactions of general information provision on FB, over 3,200 individual information provision, and 78 cases including family reunification and asylum successfully processed.6 - Literacy and Tailoring program in Afghanistan: This program aims to empower internally displaced girls in Kabul, Afghanistan to become literate and earn a livelihood through tailoring.. The program's goal is to bring positive change and alleviate poverty in their lives. A total of 42 girls, ages 15-24, enrolled in the program. As the Taliban regime banned girls from going to schools, his program has increasingly become a source of hope for some of the most deprived and underserved conflict-affected girls in the country.7 - Global voice for Autism in Jordan: This initiative is focused on equipping refugee families with children (ages 3-11) on the autism spectrum or with developmental disabilities with tools to support their education so they can be included and community activities. 30 in-person families enrolled in hybrid training (virtual and in-person) to support children with disabilities benefiting 212 children and caregivers/parents.$ 79,007

  Expenses $79,007 · Grants $79,007

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• Social Good Fund

  $102,000

  Sponsor fellows int'l relief

• Azraq Educatn Community Fund

  $50,000

  Sponsor fellows int'l relief

• Global Voice for Autism Inc

  $30,000

  Sponsor fellows int'l relief

• Code to Inspire

  $25,000

  Sponsor fellow int'l relief

• Friends of El Sistema Greece

  $20,000

  Sponsor fellow int'l relief

• Recoded

  $20,000

  Sponsor fellows int'l relief

• Project Soar Marrakech

  $15,000

  Sponsor fellows int'l relief

• The Guilford College

  $12,500

  Sponsor fellows int'l relief

• College of Mt St Vincent

  $12,000

  Sponsor fellows

• Collateral Repair Project

  $10,000

  Sponsor fellow int'l relief

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

18 September 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202332679349300003

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