· Private foundation
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
IIIT IS DEDICATED TO THE REVIVAL AND REFORM OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND ITS METHODOLOGY IN ORDER TO ENABLE THE UMMAH TO DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH PRESENT CHALLENGES AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROGRESS OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION IN WAYS THAT WILL GIVE IT MEANING AND DIRECTION.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE OF KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION | $1,378,388 |
| IIUM | $1,114,282 |
| LONDON RICHMOND HOUSE | $920,159 |
| INTL INST OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT JORDAN | $500,000 |
| ZAHAWI CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL STUD | $370,000 |
| ISLAMIC EDUCATION TRUST | $300,000 |
| ISLAMIC FIQH ACADEMY | $240,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $227,650 |
| ADVANCED STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER | $200,000 |
| CENTAR ZA MPAREDNE STUDIJE UDRUZENJ | $200,000 |
| BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $189,000 |
| ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER PRIVE | $180,000 |
| MOROCCAN CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL STUDIES & RESERCH (CMERE) | $171,700 |
| WEST AFRICA AEMS SARL | $60,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 67% of grant dollars ($13M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 33% that went abroad ($6.4M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 33% of all-years giving ($6.4M)
15 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +47%- UPUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +20% · 34% of their budget
- HIHARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE5× · 2017–2021 · $368k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- COCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OKLA INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -54%
- DCDIYANET CENTER OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- IFIKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMENone grant, 2017 · $47k · revenue -50%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Education
Human Rights Project
To support the betterment of our society through a balanced, moderate, and authentic islamic education.
Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies
Providing students with islamic education using interactive methods and cutting edge online technology.
The mission of alim academey / muslim community school is to produce well educated, moral, confident and innovative global citizens. the school is committed to academic excellence and islamic values; and strives to develop these in a safe,…
The foundation fosters and promote the development, knowledge and advancement of education of the teachings of the islamic religion throughout the world
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Unity academy of chicago provides its students with an education that instills a lifelong love for learning and excellence. our students are taught to view and understand the world through the light of the glorious quran and the teachings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Islamic Seminary of America and the most unlike its peers is Greater Herndon Lodge 64 Fraternal Order of Police. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OKLA INC ↗
- Who funds IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CORDOBA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER HERNDON LODGE 64 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds CAIR-FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEGACY INTERNATIONAL ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAMIC SEMINARY OF AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund · Barzinji Family Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · York Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute 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.
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.
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