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Grow Foundation Inc

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.

$911k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$646k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

61% of Grow Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Grow Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $911k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’21
10
’22
12
’23
6
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

International$3.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MReligion$310kEducation$204kPublic Benefit$125kHuman Services$121kRecreation & Sports$68k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $646k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMFORT AID INTERNATIONAL$645,829
ARK ACADEMY$100,000
SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAMAAT OF NY$49,000
WISE LEARNING INC$30,000
EMGAGE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
AL-MAHDI ISLAMIC CENTER$19,340
ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICAN SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITIES$18,896
UMOJA OUTREACH FOUNDATION$18,057
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$4,800
02The need
03

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 (FY22–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAJJADIYYA FOUNDATION LIMITED: $60k → 17%NASEEHA USA INC: $10k → 8%AL-AYN SOCIAL CARE FOUNDATION: $14k → 21%SAJJADIYYA FOUNDATION LIMITED: $25k → 17%AL-AYN SOCIAL CARE FOUNDATION: $12k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
CA
CO
TN
FL

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 11 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$4.0M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+3%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalReligionPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitOther

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

  • EF
    Emgage Foundation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +73%
  • UO
    UMOJA OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $66k · revenue +4%
  • WL
    WISE LEARNING CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IC
    ISLAMIC CENTER OF NASSAU INC
    one grant, 2022 · $55k
  • PS
    PORTLEDGE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • ZF
    ZAHRA FOUNDATION LTD
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +3%

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.

1
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
Al-Zaharah Islamic Education Center
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3
Zauqi Charitable & Educational Trust
—
4
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
5
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
6
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
7
Alsajdah Foundation
Religion
8
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
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
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
11
Zakat Foundation Institute

We offer a solution-oriented educational experience that accelerates the success of the social good sectors through empowering local charitable-work leaders with specialized knowledge and professional skills and integrating them into the…

Education
12
The Noor Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comfort Aid International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tahrike Tarsile Quran 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

16 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. 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMFORT AID INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,350,107 · InternationalCOMFORT AID INTERNATIONAL INC+1 more — $22,000 · InternationalDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,327,539 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE G…AL-MAHDI ISLAMIC CENTER — $104,140 · OtherAL-MAHDI I…ARK ACADEMY — $100,000 · OtherARK ACADEM…SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAMAAT OF NY — $90,750 · OtherSHIA ITHNA…ISLAMIC CENTER OF NASSAU INC — $55,050 · OtherISLAMIC CE…PORTLEDGE SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICAN SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITIES — $18,896 · OtherUMOJA OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC — $65,557 · OtherUMOJA OUTR…AL ZAHRA ISLAMIC CENTER — $20,000 · Other+4 more — $23,587 · OtherEmgage Foundation Inc — $125,000 · Public BenefitSAJJADIYYA FOUNDATION LIMITED — $85,000 · Human ServicesAL-AYN SOCIAL CARE FOUNDATION — $26,000 · Human ServicesNASEEHA USA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION — $81,319 · Public Safety & DisasterWISE LEARNING CORPORATION — $54,000 · EducationUNITY ACADEMY OF CHICAGO — $20,000 · EducationNew York University — $4,800 · Education
International$3,372,107Philanthropy$1,327,539Other$502,980Public Benefit$125,000Human Services$121,000Public Safety & Disaster$81,319Education$78,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMFORT AID INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,350,107 over 5y, 16% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,327,539 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc — $125,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSAJJADIYYA FOUNDATION LIMITED — $85,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetDEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION — $81,319 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUMOJA OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC — $65,557 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetWISE LEARNING CORPORATION — $54,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAL-AYN SOCIAL CARE FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLEDGE SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZAHRA FOUNDATION LTD — $22,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAL ZAHRA ISLAMIC CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUNITY ACADEMY OF CHICAGO — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTAHRIKE TARSILE QURAN INC — $13,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNASEEHA USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNew York University — $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

North American Shia I…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
North American Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim CommunitiesMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North American Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Grow 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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