· Private foundation
Issa Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOC | $20,000 |
| PALESTINE AID SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PALESTINIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOC | $5,000 |
| NAAMA | $5,000 |
| MUATH BIN JABAL MOSQUE | $3,000 |
| MUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SHOP WITH A COP | $1,500 |
| DARUL WAHL | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN MOSLEM SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMICHIGAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $71k
- MBMUATH BIN JABAL MOSQUE8× · 2017–2024 · $23k
- HCHIDAYA COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IAISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF YPSILANTI INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +136%
- ICISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +336%
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.
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.
Education
Mosque
UICApractice and present Islam by providing religious, educational and social activities for the local community in Arizona . Our goal is to develop and promote a socially responsible Muslim-American identity.
An educational organization providing premier educational services to those who cannot afford it, as well as general charitable services
Education, religious services
Religious School With Mosque
To help keep islam relevant by serving our nati
Our mission is to provide religious, social and charitable services to our community.
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF YPSILANTI INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE AID SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JAMIA ISLAMIA DARUL-ULOOM DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Darul Wahi ↗
- Who funds THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Tabbaa Foundation · The Saleh Foundation · The Bitar Foundatiuon · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Issa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Issa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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