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Afzal Family Foundation at a glance

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Afzal Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$841k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
11
States reached
$149k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$262kInternational$220kEducation$185kHuman Services$74kArts & Culture$65kCommunity Improvement$52kYouth Development$34kHealth$21kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $561,470, the rows itemized in this filing. The $841,470 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $280,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k12 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
$10,600
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Medina$15,000
Unity Productions Foundation$15,000
Life for Relief & Development$15,000
MSDV$10,600
Council of Islamic Org of Chicago$5,000
Zaytuna College$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LILY'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HEART WOMEN AND GIRLS: $13k → 14%LILY'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%HEART WOMEN AND GIRLS: $13k → 14%LILY'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%HEART WOMEN AND GIRLS: $18k → 14%LILY'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$674k · 9 repeat orgs$448k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +234% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$674k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+234%
+40%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
ReligionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ZF
    ZUBAIDA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $185k · revenue +222%
  • HW
    HEART Women & Girls
    3× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +986%
  • IS
    Islamic Scholarship Fund
    2× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +364%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • IM
    INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…

International
3
Muslim Americans in Public Service

MAPS is a national non-partisan, nonprofit network of professionals and organizations that aim to create an enabling ecosystem for Muslim American public servants to thrive both personally and professionally. Our mission is to support the…

Community Improvement
4
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
5
Minaret of Freedom Institute

Our mission is to our mission is to counter distortions and misconceptions about Islamic beliefs and practice to demonstrate the Islamic origins of modern values like the rule of law and sciences like market economics to advance the status…

Health
6
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
7
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
8
The Malala Fund

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…

Education
9
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
10
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding

Ispu provides objective research and education about american muslims to support well-informed dialogue and decision-making.

International
11
Muslim Aid America

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Heart of a Nation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIMO: $70,000 · OtherIMOGEORGE SCHOOL: $66,000 · OtherGEORGE SCHOOLUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATIONHelping Hand for Relief and Development: $55,000 · OtherHelping Hand for Relief and DevelopmentUPF: $50,000 · OtherUPFUnited Friends School: $44,000 · OtherUnited Friends SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherIslamic Scholarship Foundation: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $58,720 · Other+11 moreZUBAIDA FOUNDATION: $185,000 · ReligionZUBAIDA FOUNDATIONMASJIDULLAH INCORPORATED: $30,000 · ReligionMASJIDULLAH INCORPORATE…AMERICA INDIVISIBLE: $10,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionPEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 · InternationalPEARL S BUCK INT…LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 · InternationalLIFE FOR RELIEF …HEART Women & Girls: $42,500 · Human ServicesLILYS HOPE FOUNDATION: $31,000 · Human ServicesNetwork of Victim Assistance: $3,000 · Human ServicesIslamic Scholarship Fund: $35,000 · EducationA CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $10,000 · EducationMiraaj Academy Inc: $5,000 · EducationMEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $20,000 · HealthNAMI National: $750 · HealthINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 · Community ImprovementREPAIR THE WORLD: $5,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$563,720Religion$230,000International$165,000Human Services$76,500Education$50,000Health$20,750Community Improvement$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZUBAIDA FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetPEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHEART Women & Girls: $42,500 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetIslamic Scholarship Fund: $35,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLILYS HOPE FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMASJIDULLAH INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICA INDIVISIBLE: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiraaj Academy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZaytuna College Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork of Victim Assistance: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chubb Charitable Foun…Verizon FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Chubb Charitable FoundationPA12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Afzal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Afzal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Afzal Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Afzal Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $790k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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