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Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc Fka Mar-Jac Foundation at a glance

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Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc Fka Mar-Jac Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$109MPhilanthropy$6.7MSocial Science$6.0MHuman Services$759kReligion$750kArts & Culture$400kCivil Rights$325k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$35,300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$134k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH$35,300,000
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 (FY17–17, $759k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $759k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95M · 3 repeat orgs$29M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$95M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-38%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND R
    2× · 2023–2024 · $91M · 92% of their budget
  • YF
    YORK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4.3M · revenue -50% · 94% of their budget
  • AF
    AL FALAH ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $108k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • FU
    FAIRFAX UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $16M · revenue -62%
  • NL
    NEW LINES INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND POLICY
    one grant, 2023 · $6.0M
  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT THE FAIRFAX INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
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
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
2
Amir Institute
Human Services
3
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
4
Al-Zaharah Islamic Education Center
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5
American Interfaith Institute
Religion
6
Dallas Islamic Foundation
Religion
7
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
Arts & Culture
8
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
9
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
10
Foundation for International Research & Education
Youth Development
11
The Abraham Amir Ali Foundation Beloved Abraham Foundation
—
12
Al Hurvisadamm Education Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Institute for Education and R; 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND R: $90,700,000 · EducationWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RFAIRFAX UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $15,572,443 · EducationFAIRFAX UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA+3 more: $2,607,498 · EducationNEW LINES INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND POLICY: $6,000,000 · OtherALTALIB FAMILY FOUNDATION: $758,666 · OtherHUMANA CHARITABLE LLC: $758,333 · OtherTAHA AL-ALWANI ACADEMY: $525,333 · OtherUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Other+5 more: $425,350 · OtherYORK FOUNDATION: $4,250,000 · PhilanthropyBARZINJI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $966,997 · PhilanthropyTHE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $758,666 · Human ServicesUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $600,000 · ReligionAmerican Muslim Instituition: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$108,879,941Other$8,867,682Philanthropy$5,216,997Human Services$758,666Religion$600,000Arts & Culture$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND R: $90,700,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetYORK FOUNDATION: $4,250,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT THE FAIRFAX INSTITUTE: $1,999,998 over 1y, 22% of budgetBARZINJI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $966,997 over 1y, 78% of budgetTHE MIRZA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $758,666 over 1y, 38% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAL FALAH ACADEMY INC: $107,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Muslim Instituition: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHafiz Samiullah Quran Institute: $350 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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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 Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc Fka Mar-Jac Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc Fka Mar-Jac Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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.
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    How do I get to Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc Fka Mar-Jac Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fairfax Educational Foundation Inc Fka Mar-Jac Foundation 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 20 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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