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Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago

CIOGC's mission is to be the unifying federation of Islamic organizations of greater Chicagoland, the leading advocate of Muslim community interests and a catalyst for enriching American society.

$347k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Religion$459kHuman Services$323kHealth$218kInternational$144kPhilanthropy$83kCommunity Improvement$75kHousing & Shelter$68kArts & Culture$51kOther$0
02FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $317,446 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $346,586 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,140 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $274k
$13,286
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANAD$40,000
Khalil Center$40,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Help from USA to BIH$30,000
Nigerian Islamic Association$22,000
Moraine Valley Community Coll$20,000
HASKE RASULOOLAH CENTER$16,400
Nigerian Islamic Association$15,000
Humanity Relief$13,500
Salaam Wellness Community Cen$13,286
Viator House$12,500
Helping Hand Relief and Devel$11,100
Masjid Dawah$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,360
Darul Hijrah$9,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Humanity Relief: $14k → 14%Umma Center: $17k → 8%Upbuild Foundation: $6k → 8%CHI-CARE: $38k → 7%CHI-CARE: $24k → 7%Bethany House of Hospitality: $13k → 14%Help from USA to BIH: $30k → 14%Help from USA to BIH: $12k → 14%Society of Arab American N Development: $27k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$762k · 17 repeat orgs$762k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
22

Total granted

$762k
$538k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • KF
    Khalil Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $131k · revenue +21%
  • NI
    NIGERIAN ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF USA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $74k · revenue +33%
  • C
    Chi-Care
    2× · 2020–2021 · $63k · revenue +667%

Funded once

  • ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +39%
  • CC
    CHICAGO CARES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -38%
  • CO
    Center on Muslim Philanthropy
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago Sunni Muslim Society

Community Services, Prayer arrangemrnts, Teachings of Islam and distribution of zakat funds inbetween poor communities.

Religion
2
Chicago Muslim Medical Alliance

Free medical services for the poor needy and elderly.

Education
3
Islamic Circle of North America Ga Inc

Charitable and social services

Religion
4
Chicago Dugsi Center Inc

Community services dailey arraendemnets teaching of quran and collection and distribution of sadaqa or zakat for poor

Human Services
5
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
6
Al-Rahmah Islamic Center Inc

Charitable and social services

Religion
7
Imam Abu Hanifa Islamic Center

Religious Organization, to pray and promote the religion, help refugees

Religion
8
Muslim Social Services Agency

Social Services

Human Services
9
Muslim Community Center for Human Services

Providing Social and Medical Services to uninsured and underprivileged persons in our Community.

Community Improvement
10
Lady Fatimah Center

Lady Fatima Center is home to a culturally diverse community of Muslims in the metro Denver area, and we welcome all those who may be searching for a spiritual and religious environment imbued with the teachings of the Holy Quran, the…

Religion
11
Illinois Muslim Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Illinois Muslim Chamber of Commerce (ILMCC) is to empower and support both Muslim- and non-Muslim-owned businesses in Illinois. We aim to foster economic growth, promote entrepreneurship, and facilitate networking…

Community Improvement
12
Bilal Community Center

Community,Cultural,Religious,Educational & Humanitarian

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Il Muslim Civic Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Society of Arab American Neighborhood Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%10%<5yr14%28%5–10yr18%28%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%9%<5yr14%26%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/44
the rest of the field
15%
5,946/39,855

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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 53 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NIGERIAN ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF USA — $73,929 · OtherNIGERIAN ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF USAMASJID DAWAH — $69,429 · OtherMASJID DAWAHCenter on Muslim Philanthropy — $50,000 · OtherCenter on Muslim PhilanthropyViator House of Hospitality — $46,600 · OtherViator House of HospitalityJAMAAT MASJID AL AMIN INC — $40,750 · OtherKhalil Center — $40,000 · OtherSANAD — $40,000 · OtherISLAMIC FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherCHICAGO CARES INC — $55,000 · OtherCHICAGO CARES INCGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $40,000 · OtherMecca Center Endowment Fund — $32,500 · Other+20 more — $238,579 · Other+20 moreChi-Care — $62,800 · Human ServicesChi-CareHELP FROM USA TO BIH INC — $41,783 · Human ServicesHELP FROM USA TO…Muslim Womens Alliance — $40,000 · Human ServicesMuslim Womens Al…SOCIETY OF ARAB AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT — $27,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ARAB …UMMA — $16,500 · Human ServicesUMMAHUMANITY RELIEF — $13,500 · Human ServicesHUMANITY RELIEFBethany House of Hospitality — $13,400 · Human ServicesBethany House of…+1 more — $6,100 · Human ServicesKhalil Foundation — $131,000 · Public BenefitKhalil Fo…AL-NAHDA CENTERNFP — $73,240 · Arts & CultureHASKE RASULOOLAH CENTER — $22,400 · Arts & CultureROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER — $16,000 · Arts & CultureICNA Chicago Illinois Organization — $40,000 · ReligionMUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 · ReligionMuslim Chaplaincy at UIC — $25,000 · ReligionDAR AL-HIJRAH — $9,000 · ReligionIL Muslim Civic Coalition — $7,000 · ReligionICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $75,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHUMANITY FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC — $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOMPASSIONATE CARE NETWORK — $37,080 · HealthAmerican Muslim Health Professionals — $30,500 · Health
Other$791,787Human Services$221,083Public Benefit$131,000Arts & Culture$111,640Religion$111,000Public Safety & Disaster$90,000Health$67,580

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKhalil Foundation — $131,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNIGERIAN ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF USA — $73,929 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetAL-NAHDA CENTERNFP — $73,240 over 3y, 21% of budgetChi-Care — $62,800 over 2y, 18% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $55,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetViator House of Hospitality — $46,600 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHELP FROM USA TO BIH INC — $41,783 over 2y, 29% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuslim Womens Alliance — $40,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetICNA Chicago Illinois Organization — $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE CARE NETWORK — $37,080 over 1y, 43% of budgetMecca Center Endowment Fund — $32,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Muslim Health Professionals — $30,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetMUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ARAB AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT — $27,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMuslim Chaplaincy at UIC — $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetUMMA — $16,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER — $16,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHUMANITY FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANITY RELIEF — $13,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetBethany House of Hospitality — $13,400 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP — $12,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIL Muslim Civic Coalition — $7,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHeroic Hearts Organization NFP — $6,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpbuild Foundation — $6,100 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN ISLAMIC CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH DALLAS FAIR PARK INNERCITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Islamic Food & Nutrit…The Chicago Community…Islamic Relief USAYaqub Family Foundati…The Zakat Foundation …Interfaith AmericaAbbVie FoundationTaj FoundationAmerican Muslim Commu…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Tides FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…
Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of AmericaIL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of America · The Chicago Community Trust · Islamic Relief USA · Yaqub Family Foundation · The Zakat Foundation of America · Interfaith America · AbbVie Foundation · Taj Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago?

    Find your warmest path to Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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