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Grow Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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

MN
IL
MI
NY
CA
CO
TN
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
Al-Zaharah Islamic Education Center
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3
Zauqi Charitable & Educational Trust
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comfort Aid International Inc; 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 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. 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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