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Ansaar USA for Relief and Development

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.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$327kInternational$276kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$8kEducation$7kCivil Rights$2kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $78k
$28,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIOUS PROJECTS$49,000
BAITULMAAL$28,500
BHEZADI FOUNDATION$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%U S HELP INC: $3k → 9%HELPING HAND: $5k → 8%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF CHARITIES: $9k → 8%US HELP INC: $2k → 9%HELPINH HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 8%US HELP INC: $1k → 9%MUHSEN: $2k → 7%ZAKAT CHICAGO: $300 → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
RI
CA
VA
KS
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 19 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
19

Total granted

$607k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
-8%

Still filing today

53%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • BI
    BAITULMAAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $208k · revenue ×12
  • MI
    MedGlobal Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +163%
  • HH
    HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $7k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • PP
    PIOUS PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • IM
    Indian Muslim Relief and Charities
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -14%
  • PH
    PURE HANDS FOR MANKKIND
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
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
2
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
3
Isaad foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
Muslim Response Usa for Relief and Development

To provide material and financial assistance to relieve the sufferings of any and all persons affected by disasters. conflicts, disease. and hunger, irrespective of race. creed or ethnicity. To support schools and other learning centers…

International
5
Humanitarian African Relief Organization

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

International
6
Humanity Increased

Humanity-Increased is an international charity whose mission is to help those in need and promote human transformation. The teachings of Islam inspire our mission, and we strive to embody its values of compassion, empathy, and service to…

International
7
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
8
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
9
Zahra Foundation Ltd

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

International
10
International Humanitarian Relief

To provide full educational and learning opportuintes to displaced refugees. ihr-usa operates learning centers that teach children basic math, english and science classes. in addition we help in their everyday lives such as food, shelter…

International
11
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
12
Relieve Humanity International Inc

Relieve poverty

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc; the most unlike its peers is Muhsen. 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

20 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. 20 of the 39 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIOUS PROJECTS: $266,730 · OtherPIOUS PROJECTSPIOUS PROJECT: $24,000 · OtherPIOUS PROJECT+17 more: $69,780 · Other+17 moreBAITULMAAL INC: $207,825 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INC+7 more: $20,625 · International+7 moreTHE SEED: $35,120 · ReligionZaytuna College Inc: $5,500 · ReligionISLAMIC OASIS CENTER CO: $2,500 · ReligionIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $9,250 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesUS HELP INC: $6,001 · Human ServicesMuhsen: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesMedGlobal Inc: $8,900 · HealthJUSTICE FOR ALL: $2,000 · Civil RightsHIDAYA FOUNDATION: $1,500 · PhilanthropySARAH'S CIRCLE: $1,175 · Housing & Shelter
Other$360,510International$228,450Religion$43,120Human Services$24,551Health$8,900Civil Rights$2,000Philanthropy$1,500Housing & Shelter$1,175

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $207,825 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEED: $35,120 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $9,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $8,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS HELP INC: $6,001 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetZaytuna College Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $3,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSRD FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC OASIS CENTER CO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuhsen: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIDAYA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $1,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Hands Relief Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds BAITULMAAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEED ↗
  • Who funds Indian Muslim Relief and Charities ↗
  • Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds US HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds SRD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC OASIS CENTER CO ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
  • Who funds Muhsen ↗
  • Who funds HIDAYA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds United Hands Relief Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago ↗

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.

The Tabbaa FoundationMI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tabbaa Foundation · Sahara Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Nakadar Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · Muslim Community Center · Saif and Lubna Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Ansaar USA for Relief and Development funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ansaar USA for Relief and Development. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
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, FY20–24
    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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    How do I get to Ansaar USA for Relief and Development?

    Find your warmest path to Ansaar USA for Relief and Development 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 39 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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