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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 you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $23,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,809 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,809 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised 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

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.

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Your 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. Your 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

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.

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.

03Your edge
04Your field

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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and 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 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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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 you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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.

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.

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

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Montgomery County Muslim Found 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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