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J Thald Family 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.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$225kCommunity Improvement$80kHealth$35kHuman Services$31kCivil Rights$30kInternational$30kEducation$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$7,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMAN$30,000
PRAYER CENTER OF ORLAND PARK$25,000
PCRF - CHICAGO CHAPTER$20,000
Individual grant recipient$7,200
Individual grant recipient$6,000
MED GLOBAL$5,000
BAITULMAAL$4,500
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 (FY21–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Helping Hand for Relief and Develop: $15k → 8%Muhsen: $15k → 7%Helping Hand for Relief and Develop: $6k → 8%Muhsen: $10k → 7%Muhsen: $10k → 7%Zakat Chicago: $10k → 14%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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 6 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$311k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthEducationOther
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

  • TP
    THE PRAYER CENTER TRUST
    3× · 2021–2024 · $110k
  • IM
    INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK
    3× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue -28%
  • M
    Muhsen
    3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • PS
    Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • RW
    RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • CO
    Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -18%
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
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
3
Islamic Relief Usa

Islamic relief usa provides relief and development in a dignified manner regardless of gender, race, or religion, and works to empower individuals in their communities and give them a voice in the world.

International
4
Isaad foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
7
International Institute of Islamic Medicine

International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application

Human Services
8
The Noor Foundation
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
Omeed

Omeed continues to provide the following through projects in pakistan and azad kashmir: (i) free healthcare for women and children through the kashif free clinic in dhamial, rawalpindi, pakistan, (ii) scholarships for students in…

International
11
Gaza Soup Kitchen

Gaza soup kitchen is dedicated to alleviating food and water insecurity and providing essential support services to vulnerable populations across the gaza strip in palestine.

Food & Nutrition
12
Muslim Americans in Public Service

MAPS is a national non-partisan, nonprofit network of professionals and organizations that aim to create an enabling ecosystem for Muslim American public servants to thrive both personally and professionally. Our mission is to support the…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baitulmaal Inc; the most unlike its peers is Muhsen. 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

9 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. 9 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PRAYER CENTER TRUST: $110,000 · OtherTHE PRAYER CENTER TRUSTTaleef: $35,000 · OtherTaleefIMAN: $30,000 · OtherIMANAL-AZHAR ISLAMIC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherAL-AZHAR ISLAMIC FOUNDATIONPCRF - CHICAGO CHAPTER: $20,000 · OtherPCRF - CHICAGO CHAPTERQalam: $10,000 · OtherMiftaah: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $26,200 · Other+4 moreINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $80,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY MUSLIM A…Muhsen: $35,000 · Human ServicesMuhsenHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FO…Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago: $10,000 · Human ServicesCouncil of Isla…Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund: $20,000 · EducationRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INC: $4,500 · InternationalYAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsMedGlobal Inc: $5,000 · Health
Other$271,200Community Improvement$80,000Human Services$66,000Education$20,000International$19,500Civil Rights$10,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMuhsen: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalestinian Students Scholarship Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCouncil of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Muhsen ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund ↗
  • Who funds RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago ↗
  • Who funds YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
  • Who funds BAITULMAAL INC ↗

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 J Thald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Thald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 20 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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