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FAIRFAX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$35M
Granted FY2024
1
Grants
1
Communities
$35M
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$109MPhilanthropy$5.2MHuman Services$759kReligion$600kArts & Culture$50kOther$10M
02FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$35,300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$134k
Total assets
Largest grants
- WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH$35,300,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $759k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$103M · 4 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
16
Total granted
$103M
$23M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-38%
+20%
Still filing today
75%
44%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionOther
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
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH2× · 2023–2024 · $91M · 92% of their budget
- NLNEW LINES INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND POLICY2× · 2022–2023 · $7.5M
- YFYORK FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $4.3M · revenue -50% · 94% of their budget
Funded once
- FUFAIRFAX UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2020 · $16M · revenue -42%
- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue +70%
- BFBARZINJI FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $967k · revenue -48% · 78% of their budget
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.
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Foundation for Islamic Scholarship
Education
2
Washington Institute for Near East
To advance a balanced and realistic understanding of american interests in the middle east.
International
3
Wisdom Islamic Studies and
Religion
4
Center for Islam in the Contemporary
Religion
5
Maharishi International University
Education used to develop every student's creative potential through maharishi's consciousness-based education, thereby raising every nation to invincibility and creating peace and prosperity for our world family.
Education
6
The American University in Cairo
To provide high quality educational opportunities to students. see sch o.to provide high quality educational opportunities to students from all segments of society, and to contribute to egypt's cultural and intellectual life.
Education
7
Westminster University
Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.
Education
8
American Institute of Islamicstudies and Culture
Grounded in the faith and beliefs of Islamic traditions we will affirm Islams core values which are Acceptance Compassion Equality Justice and Peace.
Religion
9
Altalib Family Foundation - Aff
Philanthropy
10
Foundation for International Research & Education
Youth Development
11
Alavi Foundation
Education
12
Irusa Waqf
Establish a pool of capital that ensures the long-term sustainability of islamic relief usa (irusa) and enables the charity in achieving its objectives.
International
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Institute for Education and R and 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$108,879,941Other$10,367,682Philanthropy$5,216,997Human Services$758,666Religion$600,000Arts & Culture$50,000
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 WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds BARZINJI FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALFALAH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSLIM INSTITUTION ↗
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.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation FAIRFAX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: YORK FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 311621645 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on YORK FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines