2023-09-24T10:48:04-07:00 2022-12-31 061609121 Adam P Cohen CPA LLC 81 South Main St Suite 9 West Hartford CT 06107 990 2022-01-01 264094865 Blossom Hill Foundation Inc BLOS 2039129155 PO Box 143 New Canaan CT 06840 Shiva Sarram President 2023-09-18 true Shiva Sarram 999009999 true Adam P Cohen P00046319 8605216400 X 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Shiva Sarram President 450956 false X http://blossomhill-foundation.org X 2009 CT Blossom Hill Foundation funds innovative ideas to help children affected by conflict in the Middle East. 5 5 3 5 0 415131 425440 0 1079 1266 -400 416210 426306 219763 324007 0 119200 114223 0 28241 13216 12997 352179 451227 64031 -24921 403308 378387 0 403308 378387 Blossom Hill Foundation funds innovative ideas to help children affected by conflict in the Middle East. false false 245000 245000 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 80767 Program services, which are not allocated to grants. 79007 79007 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 404774 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false true false true false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 7 0 true 3 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 5 5 true false false false false false false false false false false true true true true true true false false false CT X Shiva Sarram 2039129155 PO Box 143 New Canaan CT 068400143 X Shiva Sarram President 30.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Hossein Amir-Aslani Director 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Drew Pearson Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Reza Sayah Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Heather Hewett Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 0 false false false 0 107461 317979 425440 0 1266 1266 0 0 0 0 24250 107461 24650 -400 -459 0 0 0 426306 807 314000 314000 10007 10007 0 0 0 0 105520 73864 10552 21104 0 0 8703 6092 870 1741 0 0 2850 2850 0 0 0 0 0 216 216 2166 1083 1083 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1120 1120 Bank, site & credit card fees 4783 470 4313 Payroll service 838 838 Awards 811 811 Miscellaneous expenses 213 213 0 451227 404774 18212 28241 40858 95353 362450 283034 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 403308 378387 0 0 X 403308 378387 403308 378387 403308 378387 -24921 X X false false false X 350827 347503 336110 429368 425440 1889248 0 0 350827 347503 336110 429368 425440 1889248 744662 1144586 1641 2855 1971 1079 1266 8812 0 0 1898060 0.60300 0.65240 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 426306 426306 426306 451227 451227 451227 true Middle East 0 0 Program services Children / students 182507 Europe 0 0 Program services Children / students 83000 South Asia 0 0 Program services Children / students 57500 323007 323007 Fellowships thru US fiscal sponsor Middle East 10 Ck to US fiscal Fellowships thru US fiscal sponsors Europe 4 Ck to US fiscal Fellowships thru US fiscal sponsors South Asia 4 Ck to US fiscal false false false false false false false DinnerFarmFork 118500 94250 24250 2869 11807 9515 Auction 13211 13211 459 131711 107461 24250 2869 11807 9974 24650 -400 true Al Bustan Seeds of Culture 3645 Lancaster Ave Philadelphia PA 19104 030502955 501(c)(3) 7500 0 Sponsor fellows int'l relief Azraq Educatn Community Fund 319 E 50th Street New York NY 10022 474547136 501(c)(3) 50000 0 Sponsor fellows int'l relief Code to Inspire 1818 Ocean Avenue Apt 2N Brooklyn NY 11230 473076235 501(c)(3) 25000 0 Sponsor fellow int'l relief Collateral Repair Project PO Box 23146 Brooklyn NY 11202 204928141 501(c)(3) 10000 0 Sponsor fellow int'l relief College of Mt St Vincent 6301 Riverdale Avenue The Bronx NY 10471 131740445 501(c)(3) 12000 0 Sponsor fellows Friends of El Sistema Greece 1866 Wyoming Ave NW Washington DC 20009 821323440 501(c)(3) 20000 0 Sponsor fellow int'l relief Global Voice for Autism Inc 4255 Rosewood Ln N Plymouth MN 55442 813956172 501(c)(3) 30000 0 Sponsor fellows int'l relief Project Soar Marrakech 6411 3rd St NW Washington DC 20012 454630213 501(c)(3) 15000 0 Sponsor fellows int'l relief Recoded 74 South 4th Street Ste 2D Brooklyn NY 11249 814604206 501(c)(3) 20000 0 Sponsor fellows int'l relief Social Good Fund 12651-5473 San Pablo Ave Richmond CA 94805 461323531 501(c)(3) 102000 0 Sponsor fellows int'l relief SYE Initiative Inc 5 Tudor City Pl Apt 1405 New York NY 10017 832030921 501(c)(3) 10000 0 Sponsor fellow int'l relief The Guilford College 5800 West Friendly Ave Greensboro NC 27410 560529982 501(c)(3) 12500 0 Sponsor fellows int'l relief 11 1 Fellowships 2 10007 Cash Paid Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used Blossom Hill Foundation has fiscal sponsor agreements with 9 subgrantors and the 16 fellows funded under the grants. Under these agreements Blossom Hill awarded two fellowships directly to individuals.Blossom Hill receives reports on the activities from each of these grantees - corporate and individuals, which the Foundation reviews for compliance. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Shiva Sarram and Drew Pearson are spouses. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Foundation Board engaged a CPA to assist with the annual accounting and preparation of Form 990. The CPA prepares a draft of the Form 990, which he reviews with the Treasurer President. The draft is then circulated to the Board before filing with IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Foundation requests annual disclosure of any conflicts of interest from its Board members. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Foundation makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available in accordance with state law.