· Public charity
Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts
Religious/charitable
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $135,245 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $217,999 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,754 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $55,590 |
| BAITULMAAL INC | $40,155 |
| ISLAMIC RELIEF USA | $13,800 |
| MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENT | $10,200 |
| SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE | $8,000 |
| SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–23, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of those 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- HHHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $106k · revenue +11%
- BIBAITULMAAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue +127%
- IRISLAMIC RELIEF USA3× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- ATASSISTANCE TO ORGANIZATIONS IN NEEDone grant, 2017 · $41k
- IMIndian Muslim Relief and Charitiesone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue -42%
- AAALHUDA ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +54%
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.
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.
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.
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…
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
Zahra foundation provides humartian aid to the destiute orphans of iraq and people suffering extreme circumstances around the world
To provide full educational and learning opportuintes to displaced refugees. ihr-usa operates learning centers that teach children basic math, english and science classes. in addition we help in their everyday lives such as food, shelter…
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
To help africans in need. our main focus is getting food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc and the most unlike its peers is Alhuda Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BAITULMAAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
- Who funds Indian Muslim Relief and Charities ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALHUDA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Madina Academy Inc ↗
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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts 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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