· Private foundation
Afzal Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $561,470 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $841,470 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $280,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Zubaida Foundation | $149,000 |
| George School | $66,000 |
| Helping Hand for Relief and Development | $55,000 |
| UPF | $50,000 |
| United Friends School | $44,000 |
| I.M.O Inc | $34,000 |
| Masjidullah | $30,000 |
| Darul Ulum N.Y. | $30,000 |
| Islamic Scholarship Foundation | $20,000 |
| Life for Relief & Development | $15,000 |
| Unity Productions Foundation | $15,000 |
| Medina | $15,000 |
| MSDV | $10,600 |
| Council of Islamic Org of Chicago | $5,000 |
| Zaytuna College | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +234% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ZFZUBAIDA FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $185k · revenue +222%
- HWHEART Women & Girls3× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +986%
- ISIslamic Scholarship Fund2× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +364%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $45k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $36k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $24k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Human Rights Project
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We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…
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Ispu provides objective research and education about american muslims to support well-informed dialogue and decision-making.
Provide help to people who are victims of natural disasters or conflicts or suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, or lack of skills or economic opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World and the most unlike its peers is Zubaida Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ZUBAIDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEART Women & Girls ↗
- Who funds Islamic Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds LILYS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASJIDULLAH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA ON MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds A CONTINUOUS CHARITY ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICA INDIVISIBLE ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
- Who funds Miraaj Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Network of Victim Assistance ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Afzal Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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