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Ike Nizam Foundation Inc % Laurie Feller at a glance

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Ike Nizam Foundation Inc % Laurie Feller

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$698k
Granted FY2024still arriving
215
Grants FY2024still arriving
38
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$524kEducation$440kHuman Services$210kHealth$160kFood & Nutrition$99kAnimals$80kYouth Development$44kHousing & Shelter$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 215 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k199 grants · $468k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $230k
$1,782
Median grant
38
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION SAN DIEGO$33,115
BEST CHRISTMAS EVER$32,772
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF LAS VEGAS$20,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$18,953
YWAM$12,449
ILLINOIS FOUNDATION FOR DEAF CHILDREN$12,000
ROCKFORD PROMISE$10,500
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$10,100
PAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE$10,000
FLIGHT TO NORTH POLE$10,000
PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC FOOD BANK$10,000
SOLDIERS ANGELS$10,000
OPERATION GRATITUDE$10,000
MOUNTAIN VIEW ACADEMY$10,000
TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME INC$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%DINNER PARTY LABS: $300 → 10%HAND AND PAWORG: $4k → 8%ONE WARM COAT: $2k → 10%CONTRACTORS FOR KIDS: $10k → 7%TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME INC: $10k → 6%FOSTER LOVE: $4k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%SON MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%BUDDIES & CO: $2k → 9%FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $3k → 10%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $750 → 11%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $9k → 8%NO BIRTHDAY LEFT BEHIND: $1k → 10%A SENSE OF HOME: $1k → 14%CONTRACTORS FOR KIDS: $3k → 7%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $500 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $100 → 11%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $4k → 8%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $3k → 11%ANTIOCH ADOPTIONS: $750 → 9%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $1k → 15%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $750 → 8%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $1k → 15%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $500 → 8%DELIVERING GOOD: $750 → 17%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $800 → 14%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $300 → 14%YWCA OF NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $8k → 15%MILESTONE: $100 → 15%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $6k → 15%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $750 → 17%A MOTHER'S LOVE: $1k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $1k → 15%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $5k → 11%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

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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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$525k · 71 repeat orgs$845k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 172 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
140

Total granted

$525k
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+5%

Still filing today

59%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +24%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UF
    UCLA FOUNDATION JENNIFER KONDO
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • CS
    CROSSROADS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • VO
    VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -33%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
5
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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6
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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7
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Kids Preschool. 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

233 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. 233 of the 392 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
227/233
Grantees still filing
128/233
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC: $53,645 · OtherBEST CHRISTMAS EVER INCMISSION SAN DIEGO: $33,115 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION JENNIFER KONDO: $30,000 · Other+126 more: $774,308 · Other+126 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $363,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION+8 more: $55,341 · Education+8 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,183 · HealthTHE GENTRY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,448 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,966 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH: $6,666 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $5,462 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $5,250 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,866 · Health+10 more: $28,200 · HealthAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $13,000 · Human ServicesCONTRACTORS FOR KIDS INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $8,000 · Human ServicesWINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $5,700 · Human ServicesHUSHABYE NURSERY: $5,000 · Human ServicesHand & Paw Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesFoster Love: $4,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE GIVING SPIRIT: $3,000 · Human Services+8 more: $17,282 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,100 · AnimalsPAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsArizona Humane Society: $8,950 · AnimalsFLORIDA EXOTIC BIRD SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $4,000 · AnimalsWICHITA ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE: $4,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,533 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $3,200 · AnimalsNOAH'S ARK ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $2,560 · Animals+1 more: $2,100 · AnimalsVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $10,138 · PhilanthropyEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $6,100 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $4,000 · PhilanthropySADR FOUNDATION: $2,400 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND: $2,000 · PhilanthropyST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $6,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,183 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $4,000 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN ON THE STREET INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionCONCERN FOR NEIGHBORS FOOD BANK: $2,500 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$891,068Education$418,341Health$113,541Human Services$85,982Animals$68,443Philanthropy$32,138Food & Nutrition$26,183

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $363,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC: $53,645 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,183 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONTRACTORS FOR KIDS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE GENTRY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKFORD PROMISE: $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER AT BOOKER: $10,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $10,138 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10,100 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetONE FOR ALL: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOMINICO AMERICAN SOCIETY OF QUEENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,448 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $9,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $8,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADEXPOSUREELIMINATIONPROJECTINC: $7,260 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVERSON DELLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPFLAG: $6,970 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,966 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH: $6,666 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $5,700 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $5,462 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,183 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLE HAVEN ACTION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHUSHABYE NURSERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA EXOTIC BIRD SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPATH HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,538 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity South Carolina: $4,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

Community Foundation …Tracy E Anderson Char…The David & Colleen A…Guy Reno Family Found…Jeffrey R Anderson Ch…Bergstrom Inc Charita…United Way of Rock Ri…Kristin L Anderson Ch…Ralph J Baudhuin Foun…The Kjellstrom Family…Sjostrom & Sons Found…Amended and Restated …
Community Foundation of Northern ILIL34.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · United Way of Rock River Valley · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable 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 Ike Nizam Foundation Inc % Laurie Feller funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ike Nizam Foundation Inc % Laurie Feller. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: 2% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 392 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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