· Private foundation
Mercy Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWASIA | $53,000 |
| Guiding Light Islamic Ctr | $50,000 |
| Balsam Project | $28,000 |
| Islamic School of Louisville | $20,000 |
| Peace Dove | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 — 84% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($363k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 — 16% of all-years giving ($363k)
2 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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; $65k 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
- ISISLAMIC SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $211k · revenue +111%
- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +27%
- PHPURE HANDS INC2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +800%
Funded once
- SFSAM'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- MPMULTI-AID PROGRAM - AHMAD RAHALone grant, 2017 · $81k
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -39%
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.
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
Amel Foundation is most focused on addressing the dire situation caused by the war in Sudan and the need of Nine Million people who have been displaced as a result of the war, by providing them with food, shelter , water, and medical…
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Religious Organization, to pray and promote the religion, help refugees
SIP is dedicated to supporting, advancing, and protecting the civil and human rights of all people in Syria.In 2015, SIP established the Burnt Children Relief Foundation dedicated to healing the wounds of war
Human Rights Project
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
We provides medical assistance in disaster-affected and underserved areas, supports refugees, supplies experts for relief efforts, promotes medical education, and collaborates with similar NGOs globally.
Sanad is a charity organiztion that intends to provide much needed humanitarian aid and development efforts to those whose lives and livelihoods have been affected by crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Humanitarian Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Peace Dove. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 ISLAMIC SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HIRA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
- Who funds UNITED HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITY CO ↗
- Who funds The Peace Dove ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION 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: The Arif Foundation · The Al-Harastani Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Mercy Foundation Inc 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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