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Hilal Foundation at a glance

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Hilal 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.

$995k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$801k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.0MYouth Development$538kInternational$81kHuman Services$76kCivil Rights$35kEducation$34kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
  • $250k+1 grant · $801k
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF PUGET SOUND$801,000
MUSLIM AMERICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION$97,000
ISLAMIC CENTER OF BOTHELL$70,000
HEAL PALESTINE$25,000
ESSENTIALS FIRST$1,000
SKILLSPIRE FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Council on American Islamic Relatio: $10k → 9%ESSENTIALS FIRST: $1k → 9%Essentials First: $1k → 9%Essentials First: $1k → 9%HOPELINK: $500 → 9%SOMALI LEGENDS CHARITY: $1k → 9%Somali Legends Charity: $300 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
IN
OH
NJ
CA
VA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 12 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$2.7M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
0%

Still filing today

75%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MA
    MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF PUGET SOUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +182%
  • MA
    Muslim American Youth Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $538k · revenue +101% · 33% of their budget
  • MA
    Medina Academy
    3× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • MC
    Mayf Center
    one grant, 2022 · $52k
  • YR
    YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
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
3
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
4
Muslim Response Usa for Relief and Development

To provide material and financial assistance to relieve the sufferings of any and all persons affected by disasters. conflicts, disease. and hunger, irrespective of race. creed or ethnicity. To support schools and other learning centers…

International
5
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
6
Islamic Center of Puget Sound

Religious and charitable services

Religion
7
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
8
Akh Foundation

AKH Foundation purchases and renovates buildings to make community-oriented spaces where local service organizations can provide culturally sensitive support.

Human Services
9
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
10
Masjidullah Incorporated

The mission of Masjidullah is to establish the Holy Qur'an as the guide book for all of humanity and the life of prophet Muhammad as the example for human conduct. Masjidullah carries out its mission through programs of community service…

Religion
11
Dallas Islamic Foundation
Religion
12
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal Palestine Inc; the most unlike its peers is Medina Academy. 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

19 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. 19 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF PUGET SOUND: $1,418,046 · ReligionMUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF PUGET SOUNDMuslim American Youth Foundation: $537,500 · ReligionMuslim American Youth Foundation+4 more: $62,750 · ReligionISLAMIC CENTER OF BOTHELL: $521,000 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF BOTHELLIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMayf Center: $52,000 · OtherMayf Center+14 more: $98,500 · Other+14 moreTHE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING: $29,000 · InternationalHEAL PALESTINE INC: $25,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $16,500 · InternationalSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · InternationalMedina Academy: $33,000 · EducationMUSLIM HOUSING SERVICES: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterYAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $1,500 · Civil RightsCouncil On American-Islamic Relations: $10,000 · Human ServicesESSENTIALS FIRST: $3,000 · Human ServicesSomali Legends Charity: $1,300 · Human ServicesHOPELINK: $500 · Human ServicesGlobal Social Business Partners: $1,000 · Social Science
Religion$2,018,296Other$771,500International$75,500Education$33,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Civil Rights$26,500Human Services$14,800Social Science$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF PUGET SOUND: $1,418,046 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetMuslim American Youth Foundation: $537,500 over 5y, 33% of budgetMedina Academy: $33,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMUSLIM HOUSING SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING: $29,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMINSPANISH INC ISLAMINSPANISH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCouncil On American-Islamic Relations: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetESSENTIALS FIRST: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSomali Legends Charity: $1,300 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSALEM ISLAMIC CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPELINK: $500 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 MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds Muslim American Youth Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OMAR BIN AL-KHATTAB ISLAMIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Medina Academy ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIM HOUSING SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING ↗
  • Who funds HEAL PALESTINE INC ↗
  • Who funds YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMINSPANISH INC ISLAMINSPANISH INC ↗
  • Who funds Council On American-Islamic Relations ↗
  • Who funds SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ESSENTIALS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Uplift Dawah ↗
  • Who funds Somali Legends Charity ↗
  • Who funds Global Social Business Partners ↗
  • Who funds SALEM ISLAMIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOPELINK ↗

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…Seattle FoundationTabani Family Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…Saif and Lubna Founda…Sheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Bright Funds Foundati…Tides FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Verizon FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…
American Muslim Community FoundationCA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Muslim Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Tabani Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Saif and Lubna Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Tides Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%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
    2get no government money at all
    6report 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.

    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 36 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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