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Akram Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Akram Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0165% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

International$9kPhilanthropy$1kHealth$310Food & Nutrition$300Religion$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$396
Median grant
9
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNRWAUSA$2,760
Individual grant recipient$1,475
ZAKATFOUNDATION$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,000
IRUSA$550
Individual grant recipient$400
MATW$396
HUMANAPPEALUSA$300
WORLDFOODPROGRAM$300
ICNARELIEF$200
ANERA$200
Individual grant recipient$200
UNHCR$100
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HUMANAPPEALUSA: $300 → 10%HOPE CHARITY USA: $400 → 10%ICNARELIEF: $400 → 6%CAIR DONATION: $1k → 14%HHRD RELIEF DONATION: $200 → 8%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100 → 17%CARY MASJID: $1k → 8%AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $180 → 13%GLOBAL FRONTIER MISSIONS: $250 → 14%ZAKATFOUNDATION: $1k → 14%MUSLIM AID USA: $400 → 6%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $2k → 9%MUSLIM HANDS USA: $400 → 6%ANERA: $200 → 14%CARY MASJID: $900 → 8%AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $30 → 13%IRUSA: $550 → 9%ICNARELIEF: $200 → 6%UNHCR: $1k → 14%MATW: $396 → 9%UNHCR ZAKAT: $1k → 14%UNITED NATIONS: $400 → 14%UNHCR ZAKAT: $373 → 14%UNHCR: $100 → 14%UNRWAUSA: $3k → 14%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
MI
NY
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6k · 5 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$6k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+3%

Still filing today

40%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
InternationalPublic Safety & DisasterHealthReligionOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue -35%

Funded once

  • IR
    ISLAMIC RELIEF USA
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -11%
  • MA
    MUSLIM AID AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $400 · revenue +3%
  • HC
    HOPE CHARITY USA
    one grant, 2023 · $400
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
Rahma Worldwide Aid and Development

Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.

International
2
International Rescue Committee Inc

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

International
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Humanitarian African Relief Organization

To help africans in need. our main focus is getting food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the needy

International
5
Sudanese American Relief and Development Cnetr
Education
6
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
7
Islamic Ummah Relief Corp

Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans

Human Services
8
Zahra Foundation Ltd

Zahra foundation provides humartian aid to the destiute orphans of iraq and people suffering extreme circumstances around the world

International
9
Onerefugee
Education
10
International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Soc At the Un Inc
—
11
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
12
Sudan Aid 911 Emergency Relief Incorporated

To provide support (food, medical and shelter) for victims and refugees escaping or trapped in the war zone in sudan and currently residing in egypt or sudan. most of these refugees are women and children. we will also support them…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Near East Refugee Aid; the most unlike its peers is Global Frontier Missions Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 21 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,375 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,573 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,200 · OtherTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICAIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIRUSA: $550 · OtherIRUSAHOPE CHARITY USA: $400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $400 · OtherUNITED NATIONS: $400 · OtherMATW: $396 · Other+3 more: $710 · Other+3 moreUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $2,760 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INCISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $2,132 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USAUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCRHUMAN APPEAL: $300 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $600 · Public Safety & DisasterMUSLIM AID AMERICA: $400 · Public Safety & DisasterGLOBAL FRONTIER MISSIONS INC: $250 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 · Health
Other$9,004International$6,892Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Religion$250Health$100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $2,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $2,132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM AID AMERICA: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN APPEAL: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FRONTIER MISSIONS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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