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Farsite Foundation at a glance

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Farsite Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
San Ramon Valley Islamic Center$26,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MPAC Foundation$5,000
I-Care Fund America - AJB Trust$1,500
NISA$1,500
Monument Crisis Center$1,500
Muslim Community Center Eastbay$1,500
Hidaya Foundation$1,500
Abdul Sattar Edhi Intl Foundation$1,500
Zaytuna College$1,200
ChildLife Foundation America Inc$1,200
The Citizens Foundation USA$1,200
Islamic Relief USA$827
CAIR$600
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%The Citizens Foundation USA: $1k → 16%The Citizens Foundation USA: $850 → 16%Monument Crisis Center: $2k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $850 → 9%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45k · 10 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$45k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • SR
    San Ramon Valley Islamic Center
    2× · 2024–2025 · $27k · revenue 0%
  • AS
    ABDUL SATTAR EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • HF
    HIDAYA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • GL
    GUIDING LIGHT ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +7%
  • AA
    Aghosh AlKhidmat USA
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • IK
    IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -21%
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
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
3
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…

International
4
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
5
Ifa Center

Providing moral and religious education

Arts & Culture
6
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
7
Muslim Aid America

Provide help to people who are victims of natural disasters or conflicts or suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, or lack of skills or economic opportunity.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Darul Arqam
Religion
9
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
10
Habib University Foundation Us Inc

Hufus' mission is to support higher education in pakistan through support of habib university, pakistan's first not-for-profit, liberal arts and sciences university and a unique example of american education tradition and quality in…

Education
11
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
12
Rizad Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citizens Foundation Usa; the most unlike its peers is Kqed Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

San Ramon Valley Islamic Center: $27,300 · ReligionSan Ramon Valley Islamic CenterGUIDING LIGHT ACADEMY: $3,850 · ReligionGUIDING LIGHT ACADEMYZaytuna College Inc: $1,800 · ReligionZaytuna College IncIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMPAC Foundation: $5,000 · OtherMPAC FoundationI-Care Fund America - AJB Trust: $2,300 · OtherI-Care Fund America - AJB TrustMUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER-EAST BAY: $2,300 · OtherMUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER-EAST BAYNISA: $1,600 · OtherNISAAghosh AlKhidmat USA: $1,000 · OtherIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC: $1,000 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF LIVERMORE: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,100 · OtherMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $2,350 · Human ServicesTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $2,050 · Human ServicesHIDAYA FOUNDATION: $2,350 · PhilanthropyCHILDLIFE FOUNDATION AMERICA I: $1,200 · PhilanthropyABDUL SATTAR EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $827 · InternationalKASHMIR EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $1,000 · EducationCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $950 · Civil RightsKQED INC: $100 · Arts & Culture
Religion$32,950Other$25,300Human Services$4,400Philanthropy$3,550International$3,227Education$1,000Civil Rights$950Arts & Culture$100

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 budgetSan Ramon Valley Islamic Center: $27,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT ACADEMY: $3,850 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetABDUL SATTAR EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIDAYA FOUNDATION: $2,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $2,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZaytuna College Inc: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKASHMIR EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $100 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.

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.

American Muslim Commu…Verizon FoundationGood Planet FoundationUnited Way WorldwideMorgan Stanley Global…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
American Muslim Community FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Muslim Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Good Planet Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Farsite Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farsite Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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
    2get 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.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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