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Ali and Nihaya Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND BLANC ISLAMIC CENTER | $65,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT | $5,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS - USA | $1,500 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $1,500 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $1,500 |
| ALSAC - ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSP | $1,500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $1,500 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $1,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $1,000 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMM COLLEGE | $500 |
| KIDNEYCURE - AMERI SOC OF NEPHR | $500 |
| HURLEY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of your 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- HFHURLEY FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +48%
- MFMCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +18%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE3× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +342%
Funded once
- AAARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $2k
- SBSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +36%
- ASAmerican Society of Nephrologygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +60%
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Society of Nephrology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds American Society of Nephrology ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Ali and Nihaya 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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