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Montgomery County Muslim Found

Conduct monthly food drive, feed the homeless,back to school programs, thankgiving gift basket,senior programs and other charitable causes

$107k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2021.

International$24kEducation$16kPhilanthropy$12kHuman Services$6kPublic Benefit$5kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$1k
02FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $23,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $106,809 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $83,809 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCF$10,000
AID ALL SYRIANS$7,700
Financial Aid Of$4,000
AMERICAN MUSLIM$1,000
UNHCR$300
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 (FY17–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%AID ALL SYRIANS: $8k → 6%Luthern Social Services: $400 → 11%AMERICAN MUSLIM: $3k → 8%AMERICAN MUSLIM: $1k → 8%American Muslim Senior Society: $1k → 8%American Muslim Senior Society: $1k → 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.
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
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
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation

We are dedicated to delivering life-saving services, revitalizing health systems during crisis and promoting medical education via a network of humanitarians in syria, the us, and beyond.

Health
2
American Muslim Community Foundation

The American Muslim Community Foundation cultivates donor giving and diversified funding to advance charitable causes and programs.

Philanthropy
3
Muslim Housing Services

Provide housing assistance services to needy families, pay rent for families and single parents by finding, locating & placing these families. mhs subsidizes part or all of the rental cost for the needy family.

Housing & Shelter
4
Islamic Scholarship Fund

Islamic Scholarship Fund's mission is to support American Muslim storytelling & increase representation in fields & occupations that make public policy & influence public opinion by providing scholarships, internships, fellowships, film…

Education
5
International Social Service United States of America Branch Inc

Iss-usa mobilizes a domestic and international network of social work, legal, and other professionals to connect children, adults and families separated by borders with the services and support they need.

Human Services
6
Msa Unity
Public Benefit
7
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
8
Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington

Agsiw's central mission is to provide expert research and analysis of the social, economic, and political dimensions of the gulf arab states and how they impact how they impact u.s. and gulf domestic and foreign policy. to accomplish this…

International
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
10
United Methodist Senior Services Foundation

The mrc foundation supports mrc and its affiliates in accomplishing their commitment to quality living for senior adults in faith-based environments.

Philanthropy
11
Arab Watch Coalition

Empowering and activating the role of the civil society in the arab region to influence the policies, programs and projects of international financial institutions in the region to achieve effective inclusive, participatory, equitable and…

Human Services
12
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aid All Syrians Inc. 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 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AID ALL SYRIANS INC: $21,600 · Human ServicesAID ALL SYRIANS INCAMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY INC: $5,600 · Human ServicesAMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY INC+1 more: $400 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH HOUSING COALITION INC: $5,000 · OtherINTERFAITH HOUSING COALITI…Fund For Montgomery: $5,000 · OtherFund For MontgomeryFinancial Aid Of: $4,000 · OtherFinancial Aid OfBaltimore County Department of Social Services: $1,000 · OtherBaltimore County Departmen…CENTER FOR MUSLIM LIFE AT MARYLAND INC: $1,000 · OtherCENTER FOR MUSLIM LIFE AT …GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON …MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEG…MIST: $500 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $300 · International
Human Services$27,600Other$16,000Philanthropy$12,000Education$10,500International$2,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAID ALL SYRIANS INC: $21,600 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY INC: $5,600 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetINTERFAITH HOUSING COALITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIST: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $300 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Montgomery County Muslim Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Montgomery County Muslim Found. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY20–25
    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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    How do I get to Montgomery County Muslim Found?

    Find your warmest path to Montgomery County Muslim Found 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 13 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $95k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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