IsraAid CEO Yotam Polizer has been named this year’s Charles Bronfman Prize recipient, a $100,000 award launched in 2004 and given to a humanitarian activist younger than 50.

IsraAid, a nonprofit Israeli refugee aid organization, operates with a budget of approximately $20 million and 320 employees spread across 14 countries. “Yotam was chosen because IsraAid is not a government operation,” said Charles Bronfman, in whose name the prize was founded. “It’s an entrepreneurial philanthropy, and has done God’s work. Yotam has spearheaded an organization that now is usually the first in a country that’s in humanitarian trouble.”

At present, a major focus of the group is Ukraine. IsraAid now has more than 30 people on the ground inside Ukraine, and another dozen or so in the neighboring countries of Moldova and Romania.