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Al-Sawwaf Family Foundation at a glance

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Al-Sawwaf Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$204kReligion$162kHuman Services$39kInternational$33kFood & Nutrition$28kHealth$2kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISING STAR ACADEMY OF NJ$50,000
ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY$7,000
WAFA HOUSE INC$2,500
FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY$2,000
DARUL ISLAH$2,000
ICNA RELIEF USA$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ABS-CBN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 7%ICNA RELIEF USA: $2k → 6%PALS SKYHOPE: $2k → 7%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $8k → 17%ASIYAH WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $1k → 20%BAITULMAAL: $5k → 14%TABLE TO TABLE INC: $5k → 7%TABLE TO TABLE: $2k → 8%ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $7k → 10%AFRICA RELIEF AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 12%RISING STAR ACADEMY OF NJ: $54k → 14%BDESH FOUNDATION: $2k → 4%ISLAMIC RELIEF: $10k → 9%ABS-CBN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 7%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $5k → 17%DARUL ISLAH: $3k → 7%ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $7k → 10%EVA'S VILLAGE: $5k → 12%RISING STAR ACADEMY OF NJ: $50k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $2k → 17%DARUL ISLAH: $2k → 7%ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $7k → 10%EVA'S VILLAGE: $5k → 12%NORTH HUDSON ISLAMIC EDUCTIONAL CENTER: $50k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $2k → 17%DARUL ISLAH: $2k → 7%ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $6k → 10%EVAS VILLAGE: $2k → 12%NORTH HUDSON ISLAMIC EDUCTIONAL CENTER: $50k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $2k → 17%DARUL ISLAH: $2k → 7%ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $5k → 10%EVA'S VILLAGE: $1k → 12%RISING STAR ACADEMY OF NJ: $50k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $2k → 17%ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $2k → 10%RISING STAR ACADEMY OF NJ: $50k → 14%ISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $2k → 10%NORTH HUDSON ISLAMIC EDUCTIONAL CENTER: $18k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$443k · 9 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$443k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+34%

Still filing today

56%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WH
    WAFA HOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +101%
  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +20%
  • EVA'S VILLAGE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IR
    ISLAMIC RELIEF USAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • BI
    BAITULMAAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +107%
  • AR
    Africa Relief and Community Developmentgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +52%
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
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
2
Isaad foundation

Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.

Philanthropy
3
Us Help Inc

We are a non-profit charity organization that humbly aims to provide to those in need around the world. With gratitude & love, we try to provide food, water, clothing, shelter, peace & education to needy persons, families and communities.

Human Services
4
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
5
International Education and Welfare Society - dba Saba Homes

Provide a holistic upbringing to empower underprivileged and vulnerable individuals to become transformative leaders.

Food & Nutrition
6
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

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

International
7
Pure Hands Inc

Pure Hands, Inc.s mission is preservation of human lives by elimination of hunger through detection, prevention and treatment of malnutrition. Pure Hands, Inc. tackles the underlying causes of malnutrition and poverty during and after…

International
8
Relieve Humanity International Inc

Relieve poverty

International
9
S a H a R a Humanitarian Resource Inc

Disaster relief, emergency food assistance and long term sustainable food intervention

Human Services
10
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
11
The American Palestinian Relief Association

Our organization goal is to support as many impoverished families and children in devastated areas as possible by providing their most critical needs. Our primary focus is on ensuring access to food, followed by securing shelters for…

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baitulmaal Inc; the most unlike its peers is B Desh 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

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 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RISING STAR ACADEMY OF NJ: $203,500 · OtherRISING STAR ACADEMY OF NJNORTH HUDSON ISLAMIC EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $117,500 · OtherNORTH HUDSON ISLAMIC EDUCATIONAL CENTER INCISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY INC: $35,500 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF UNION COUNTY INC+4 more: $13,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $20,500 · Community ImprovementEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $13,000 · Community ImprovementWAFA HOUSE INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalAfrica Relief and Community Development: $2,000 · InternationalB DESH FOUNDATION: $1,500 · InternationalABS CBN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 · PhilanthropyTABLE TO TABLE INC: $7,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$369,500Community Improvement$33,500Human Services$25,500International$18,500Philanthropy$12,000Food & Nutrition$7,000

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 budgetWAFA HOUSE INC: $25,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABS CBN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrica Relief and Community Development: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB DESH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIYAH WOMENS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds WAFA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ABS CBN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds TABLE TO TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BAITULMAAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Africa Relief and Community Development ↗
  • Who funds B DESH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASIYAH WOMENS CENTER INC ↗

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.

Islamic Relief USAVerizon FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Islamic Relief USAVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Islamic Relief USA · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Al-Sawwaf Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Al-Sawwaf Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • Wafa House Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Al-Sawwaf 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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