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Barzinji Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$617k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.3MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$440kInternational$322kCivil Rights$285kCrime & Legal$157kSocial Science$150kArts & Culture$118kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $332k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$522k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY$25,000
ISLAMIC CENTER OF NASHVILLE$25,000
MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER - SLC$22,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
PEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT$20,000
INTERACT INTERNATIONAL$20,000
ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS$20,000
HIDAYAH ACADEMY$15,000
A CONTINUOUS CHARITY$15,000
IF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISLAH LA: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS: $20k → 11%MOZAIC: $40k → 4%UTAH MUSLIM CIVIC LEAGUE: $5k → 8%FAITH: $53k → 6%FAITH: $35k → 6%FAITH: $20k → 6%FAITH: $15k → 6%FAITH: $4k → 6%CENTERVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $5k → 6%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

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IL
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MA
IN
OH
PA
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VA
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DC
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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 40 repeat orgs$821k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
69

Total granted

$4.5M
$654k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+21%

Still filing today

53%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalReligionHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • TM
    THE MAQASID INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $681k · revenue +32% · 78% of their budget
  • ME
    MUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue +15%
  • NI
    NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $457k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION- KAWAAKIBI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • S
    SFUSA
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -18%
  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue +39%
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
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
3
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
4
Minaret of Freedom Institute

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…

Health
5
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

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,…

International
6
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

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
7
International Institute of Islamic Medicine

International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application

Human Services
8
Muslim Americans in Public Service

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…

Community Improvement
9
Council for Democracy & Tolerance

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…

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10
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
11
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
12
Muslimahs United

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…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Public Affairs Council; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 122 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/64
Grantees still filing
42/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETY: $1,122,500 · OtherALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETYINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING: $150,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDINGISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $128,000 · OtherMUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER UTAH: $91,500 · Other+77 more: $1,102,441 · Other+77 moreMUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $489,413 · EducationMUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE…NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY: $457,000 · EducationNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL A…A CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $50,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · EducationSFUSA: $45,000 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $41,000 · Education+8 more: $60,000 · EducationTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE: $680,500 · PhilanthropyTHE MAQASID IN…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC: $125,000 · ReligionUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $120,000 · ReligionTIM MEDIA INC: $75,000 · ReligionNEXT WAVE MUSLIM INITIATIVE INC: $42,000 · ReligionISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NEW RIVER VALLEY: $20,000 · Religion+2 more: $12,500 · ReligionFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $127,000 · Human ServicesMOZAIC: $40,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS: $20,000 · Human ServicesISLAH LA: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesPEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT: $130,000 · Crime & LegalProject Purpose: $5,000 · Crime & LegalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · InternationalYEMEN AID INC: $19,500 · InternationalB DESH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · InternationalHOPE WORLDWIDE UTAH: $10,000 · InternationalIF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · InternationalSUNRISE USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $10,000 · InternationalSYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE: $4,000 · International
Other$2,594,441Education$1,189,913Philanthropy$685,500Religion$394,500Human Services$212,000Crime & Legal$135,000International$108,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE: $680,500 over 8y, 78% of budgetMUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $489,413 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY: $457,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetPEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT: $130,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $127,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC: $125,000 over 7y, 33% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTIM MEDIA INC: $75,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetA CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSFUSA: $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEXT WAVE MUSLIM INITIATIVE INC: $42,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $41,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOZAIC: $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDEEN TV FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetIslamic Schools League of America: $23,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NEW RIVER VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERACT INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetYEMEN AID INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetB DESH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMURFREESBORO MUSLIM YOUTH INC: $12,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFACING ABUSE IN COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTS FACE: $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHOPE WORLDWIDE UTAH: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetIF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSUNRISE USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVERY IMPORTANT PROJECTS FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSLIM ANTI-RACISM COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMUSLIM PUBLIC SERVICE NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetISLAH LA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNUDAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEMERALD HILLS INSTITUTE: $8,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuhsen: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEE JUSTICE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMROOT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetGeorgia Muslim Voter Project: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 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 WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

Sterling Charitable G…American Muslim Commu…The Mirza Family Foun…Islamic Relief USAPillars FundProteus Fund IncInternational Institu…Sidra FoundationYork FoundationM Omar Ashraf Family …Shakil Ahmed and Fari…Altalib Family Founda…
Sterling Charitable Gift FundVA36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Barzinji Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barzinji Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.

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 122 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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