· Private foundation
Barzinji Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $332k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAQASID INSTITUTE | $95,000 |
| AL-FATIH ACADEMY | $80,000 |
| KAWAAKIBI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITY PRODUCTION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING | $30,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF NASHVILLE | $25,000 |
| NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER - SLC | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT | $20,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS | $20,000 |
| INTERACT INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| A CONTINUOUS CHARITY | $15,000 |
| HIDAYAH ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| A LIFE INSPIRED | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% 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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
- TMTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $681k · revenue +32% · 78% of their budget
- MEMUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue +15%
- NINASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $457k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION- KAWAAKIBI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SSFUSAone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -18%
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue +39%
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
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 middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
MAPS is a national non-partisan, nonprofit network of professionals and organizations that aim to create an enabling ecosystem for Muslim American public servants to thrive both personally and professionally. Our mission is to support the…
SEE PART 1, LINE A MISSION AND PRINCIPLESAdvocating universal individual human rights without exceptions, Advocating literacy and education as the cornerstones to personal development and true humanity, Empowering and supporting…
To spread islamic values to the globe through media
Muslimahs united was founded on islamic principles of justice, integrity, and commitment to community services. we aim to offer support, grounded in islamic practice of justice for muslim women of color, and all women who are affected by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Public Affairs Council and the most unlike its peers is Next Wave Muslim Initiative Inc. 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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 122 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 THE MAQASID INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC ↗
- Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIM MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds A CONTINUOUS CHARITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SFUSA ↗
- Who funds NEXT WAVE MUSLIM INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOZAIC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DEEN TV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Islamic Schools League of America ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NEW RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds INTERACT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Mirza Family Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · Pillars Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute · Sidra Foundation · York Foundation · M Omar Ashraf Family Foundation · Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Inc · Altalib Family Foundation - Aff
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 Barzinji Family 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 Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% 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.