· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $1,500 |
| ALSAC - ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSP | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS - USA | $1,500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $1,500 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $1,500 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $1,500 |
| ROOM TO READ | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMM COLLEGE | $500 |
| HURLEY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| KIDNEYCURE - AMERI SOC OF NEPHR | $500 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GBGRAND BLANC ISLAMIC CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $210k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN7× · 2019–2025 · $12k
- FFFLINT FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2023 · $2k
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ali and Nihaya Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ali and Nihaya Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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