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Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts

Religious/charitable

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

International$175kHuman Services$106kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kReligion$13k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $26,062, the rows itemized in this filing. The $85,877 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,815 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT$11,000
WATAN INC$9,000
YAAKAAR INC$6,062
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 (FY21–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $14k → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $56k → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $26k → 11%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $11k → 8%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

MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 20%.

Islamic Society of Western Massachusettslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 46% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 5 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$231k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • HH
    HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $117k · revenue +11%
  • BI
    BAITULMAAL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue +127%
  • IR
    ISLAMIC RELIEF USA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AT
    ASSISTANCE TO ORGANIZATIONS IN NEED
    one grant, 2017 · $41k
  • IM
    Indian Muslim Relief and Charities
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue -42%
  • SE
    SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -50%
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
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
2
Isaad foundation

Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Islamic Ummah Relief Corp

Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans

Human Services
5
Rahma Worldwide Aid and Development

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.

International
6
Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma
Philanthropy
7
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
8
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
9
Zahra Foundation Ltd

Zahra foundation provides humartian aid to the destiute orphans of iraq and people suffering extreme circumstances around the world

International
10
International Humanitarian Relief

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…

International
11
Multifaith Alliance Inc

Multifaith Alliance Incorporated's purpose is to harness the collective power of faith-based and secular partners to build on the strength and resilience of the Syrian people, help them restore their lives, and plant the seeds for a more…

International
12
Humanitarian African Relief Organization

To help africans in need. our main focus is getting food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the needy

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc; 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.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $117,340 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INCIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $13,993 · Human ServicesIndian Muslim Relief and CharitiesBAITULMAAL INC: $57,655 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INCISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $24,300 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USAMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $19,200 · InternationalMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINCPURE HANDS INC: $12,277 · InternationalPURE HANDS INCSYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE: $8,000 · InternationalSYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCEASSISTANCE TO ORGANIZATIONS IN NEED: $40,860 · OtherASSISTANCE TO ORGA…WATAN INC: $9,000 · OtherWATAN INCYAAKAAR INC: $6,062 · OtherYAAKAAR INCALHUDA ACADEMY INC: $7,000 · EducationMadina Academy Inc: $5,500 · EducationSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$131,333International$121,432Other$55,922Education$12,500Health$7,500Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $117,340 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $57,655 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $24,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $19,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $13,993 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $12,277 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadina Academy Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get 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, FY20–24
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 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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