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Farida and Aftab Chaudhri Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Farida and Aftab Chaudhri Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$160kEducation$137kPhilanthropy$60kFood & Nutrition$36kHealth$12kCommunity Improvement$8kInternational$7kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$59k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUTGERS$11,783
Individual grant recipient$3,900
YAQEEN INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC RESEARC$3,400
Individual grant recipient$3,300
Individual grant recipient$3,200
ZAYTUNA COLLEGE$3,121
ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND$3,000
BILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION$2,062
CRESCENT SCHOOL$2,000
VARIOUS$1,900
AL HUDA INSTITUE CANADA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LAUNCHGOOD$880
ICNA$600
DOMESTIC HARMONY FOUNDATION$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $10k → 10%CHILDREN OF ADAM: $29k → 7%BILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%CAIR: $8k → 17%LAUNCHGOOD: $4k → 21%THE NOOR PROJECT: $7k → 7%RUTGERS: $12k → 8%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $6k → 10%CHILDREN OF ADAM: $6k → 7%BILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%CAIR: $8k → 17%THE NOOR PROJECT: $7k → 7%RUTGERS: $10k → 8%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%IFFP: $7k → 6%BILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%CAIR: $7k → 17%THE NOOR PROJECT: $7k → 7%IFFP: $7k → 6%CAIR: $6k → 17%THE NOOR PROJECT: $6k → 7%IFFP: $5k → 6%CAIR: $5k → 17%THE NOOR PROJECT: $5k → 7%IFFP: $5k → 6%CAIR: $7k → 17%THE NOOR PROJECT: $4k → 7%IFFP: $5k → 6%FOUNDATION OF THE FAITHFUL: $6k → 13%CAIR: $6k → 17%IFFP: $4k → 6%CRESCENT SCHOOL: $12k → 6%ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: $33k → 6%ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: $28k → 6%ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: $19k → 6%ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: $14k → 6%ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: $8k → 6%ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: $6k → 6%NIGHAT IQBAL: $10k → 6%NIGHAT IQBAL: $9k → 6%NIGHAT IQBAL: $9k → 6%NIGHAT IQBAL: $8k → 6%NIGHAT IQBAL: $8k → 6%NIGHAT IQBAL: $7k → 6%VARIOUS: $5k → 6%NUZHAT SULTANA: $5k → 6%NIGHAT IQBAL: $5k → 6%NUZHAT SULTANA: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
NV
IN
OH
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$515k · 23 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
16

Total granted

$515k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+122%

Still filing today

26%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FT
    FOR THE NEEDY & HUNGRY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +274%
  • ZC
    Zaytuna College Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +98%
  • CS
    CRESCENT SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • PW
    PRAVALLI WELFARE TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • WF
    WARIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • N
    NIMS
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
3
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
4
Ibn Al-Haitham Endowment Fund
Philanthropy
5
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
6
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
7
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
8
Al Hurvisadamm Education Foundation
Education
9
I Am Mercy Foundation a/K/a I Am the Vine Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Al-Zaharah Islamic Education Center
—
11
Zafar and Mir Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Alsajdah Foundation
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity Productions Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bilquis Edhi Relief Foundation Inc. 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 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. 10 of the 42 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: $114,445 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLANDIndividual grant recipient: $58,450 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAIR: $46,000 · OtherCAIRIndividual grant recipient: $37,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIFFP: $35,500 · OtherIFFPDAR UL IMAAN INSTITUTE: $33,806 · OtherDAR UL IMAAN INSTITUTERUTGERS: $21,783 · Other+26 more: $77,780 · Other+26 moreFOR THE NEEDY & HUNGRY FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 · Food & NutritionZaytuna College Inc: $25,156 · Religion+2 more: $700 · ReligionCRESCENT SCHOOL INC: $22,000 · EducationPATIENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $1,000 · EducationBILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $20,436 · PhilanthropyISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $2,100 · Public Safety & DisasterDOMESTIC HARMONY FOUNDATION: $1,700 · Human Services
Other$425,564Food & Nutrition$35,500Religion$25,856Education$23,000Philanthropy$20,436Public Safety & Disaster$2,100Human Services$1,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOR THE NEEDY & HUNGRY FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetZaytuna College Inc: $25,156 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCRESCENT SCHOOL INC: $22,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $20,436 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE FAITHFUL INC: $6,595 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC HARMONY FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPATIENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCelebrateMercy: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FOR THE NEEDY & HUNGRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
  • Who funds CRESCENT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE FAITHFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC HARMONY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PATIENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Farida and Aftab Chaudhri Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farida and Aftab Chaudhri Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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
    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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    Find your warmest path to Farida and Aftab Chaudhri Family Foundation Inc 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 42 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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