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American Muslim Community Foundation
The American Muslim Community Foundation cultivates donor giving and diversified funding to advance charitable causes and programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 146 grants below total $2,992,671 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,341,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,348,725 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $392k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OASIS INITIATIVE | $174,335 |
| DAFFY CHARITABLE FUND | $87,301 |
| ISLAMIC RELIEF USA | $86,043 |
| NORTH AMERICAN ISLAMIC SHELTER FOR | $82,700 |
| ICNA RELIEF | $80,260 |
| HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND | $77,380 |
| MEDINA ACADEMY | $77,000 |
| AGHOSH USA | $75,285 |
| INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF AND CHARITIES | $65,605 |
| SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND | $65,540 |
| HOPE CHARITIES USA | $60,542 |
| ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF CEDAR RAPIDS | $59,550 |
| ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $56,500 |
| MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCATION | $55,000 |
| ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $3.8M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: DONOR ADVISED FUND GRANT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $846k 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
- IRISLAMIC RELIEF USA8× · 2017–2024 · $984k · revenue +2%
- HHHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $421k · revenue +42%
- GFGivelight Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $307k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- NUNASEEHA USA INCone grant, 2021 · $533k · revenue -47% · 87% of their budget
- AIAL-HUDA ISLAMIC CENTER OF FINGER LAKES CHAIRTABLE TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CSCLUBFOOT SOLUTIONSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $46k · revenue +43%
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.
Human Rights Project
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
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.
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…
The mission of Masjidullah is to establish the Holy Qur'an as the guide book for all of humanity and the life of prophet Muhammad as the example for human conduct. Masjidullah carries out its mission through programs of community service…
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
To propagate the teachings of the holy quran and the sunnah of the holy and nobel prophet, prophet muhammad (peace & blessings be upon him) including, without limitation, to organize educational and prayer sessions for the teaching of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islamic Circle of North America-Sf Bay Area and the most unlike its peers is Alalusi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
205 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. 205 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
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- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN ISLAMIC SHELTER FOR THE ABUSED ↗
- Who funds HIDAYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OASIS INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indian Muslim Relief and Charities ↗
- Who funds RAHIMA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAYBA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
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- Who funds UPLIFT ↗
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- Who funds THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Medina Academy ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Islamic Relief USA · The Syed Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · Darul Sadaqa786 · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · Sahara Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of America · The Arif Foundation · Tabani Family Foundation · Barzinji Family Foundation · Nakadar Foundation
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 American Muslim Community 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.
- The Muslim Connection Inc — 0% 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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