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· Private foundation

Center for Islam in the Contemporary World

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$253kHuman Services$121kReligion$11kHousing & Shelter$2kCivil Rights$1kHealth$1k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$192k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITH$10,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$7,000
INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES$2,800
COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN NORTH AMERICA$1,000
GLOBAL ASSOCIATION OF ISLAMIC SCHOOL$1,000
ISLAMIC SCHOOL LEAGUE OF AMERICA$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%FAITH: $15k → 6%FAITH: $10k → 6%FAITH: $10k → 6%FAITH: $10k → 6%FAITH: $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.
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 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
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
3
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
4
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
5
Dallas Islamic Foundation
Religion
6
The Islamic Society of Southern California
Religion
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
Al-Zaharah Islamic Education Center
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9
Hamzah Islamic Center Inc

Practice and education of Islam

Religion
10
American Imam Academy

Education

Religion
11
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
12
Ibrahim Center

Provide religious education, space and mentorship.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for Islamic Christian and Jewish Studies Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Mirza Family Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS TO (17) STUDENTS IN (17) UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES: $93,196 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS TO (17) STUDENTS IN (17) UNIVERS…SCHOLARSHIPS TO (16) STUDENTS IN (10) UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES: $71,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS TO (16) STUDENTS IN (10) UNIVERSITIES AND C…Individual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherFREE BOOKS DISTRIBUTION - AMERICAN MASJID BOOKS AND STICKER(PMT TO AMRDC): $7,550 · Other+8 more: $14,280 · Other+8 moreFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $50,000 · Human ServicesFoundation for Appropriate an…THE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATIONSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $52,115 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYIslamic Scholarship Fund: $25,250 · EducationIslamic Scholarship FundSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY+4 more: $6,300 · Education+4 moreAmerican Muslim Health Professionals: $1,000 · HealthICNA COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1,000 · Civil RightsGlobal Deaf Muslim Federation: $1,000 · Religion
Other$195,026Human Services$100,000Education$90,665Health$1,000Civil Rights$1,000Religion$1,000

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 budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $52,115 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetIslamic Scholarship Fund: $25,250 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC: $2,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Muslim Health Professionals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetICNA COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIslamic Schools League of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGlobal Deaf Muslim Federation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sterling Charitable Gift FundVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Center for Islam in the Contemporary World funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Islam in the Contemporary World. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%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
    1get 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, FY20–25
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Center for Islam in the Contemporary World?

    Find your warmest path to Center for Islam in the Contemporary World 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 24 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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