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El-Gamal Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZAYTUNA COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| BAYAN | $20,000 |
| PENNY APPEAL USA INC | $18,000 |
| UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TRACY ISLAMIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| ISLAMIC CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER MASJID AL-HUDA | $10,000 |
| ISLAMIC RELIEF USA | $10,000 |
| PALESTINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| MUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| MASJID AN-NUR-ISLAMIC CENTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS & ST | $10,000 |
| EGYPT CANCER NETWORK 57357 AND AFNCI INC | $5,000 |
| ISLAMIC AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| NEW HORIZON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHARLOTTE | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- ZCZaytuna College Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +98%
- MPMUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +83%
- NHNEW HORIZON IRVINE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- MIMYASWAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +517%
- UPUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +20%
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.
Established to represent the american muslim community and to advocate for human rights, tolerance, and justice in the united state and the world, and to foster interfaith and interethnic understanding.
Darul Uloom is a nonprofit Islamic center that has been formed exclusively for educational and religious purposes. The center plays vital role in the lives of Muslims in the East of Saint Paul, Minnesota. The center is a place where…
Islamic Scholarship Fund's mission is to support American Muslim storytelling & increase representation in fields & occupations that make public policy & influence public opinion by providing scholarships, internships, fellowships, film…
Establish a pool of capital that ensures the long-term sustainability of irusa and enables the charity in achieving its objectives.
IQRA ACADEMY is a nonprofit cultural and educational institute that has been formed exclusively for basic Islamic education. The center plays vital role in the lives of Muslim children in South Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies
To support the betterment of our society through a balanced, moderate, and authentic islamic education.
To Facilitate Coexistence globally by promoting and rewarding collaborative work in the preservation and promotion of life, based on compassion. To encourage and assist people of all orientations to become true vicegerents of God on earth.
None
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Horizon Irvine School and the most unlike its peers is American Palestinian Forum Apf. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 Zaytuna College Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON IRVINE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BAYAN ↗
- Who funds EGYPT CANCER NETWORK 57357 AND AFNCI INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PENNY APPEAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Muslim Community Center of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds AL-AMAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Islamic American Society of Connecticut INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PALESTINIAN FORUM APF ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON IRVINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MYASWAN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Muslim Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Chicago Community Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 El-Gamal 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.
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.