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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.

$24M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$265kReligion$117kCommunity Improvement$61kHealth$52kArts & Culture$50kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$26kInternational$12k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $237,063, the rows itemized in this filing. The $23,946,780 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,709,717 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IKRAM FOUNDATION$55,011
ZAKAT CHICAGO$50,000
MASJID AL ISLAM$35,000
MASJID AL ISLAM$25,000
MAHI INTERNATIONAL$25,000
FAITH$24,190
CULINARY ANGELS$22,862
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ILM FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%TEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION: $90k → 5%ZAKAT CHICAGO: $50k → 14%SELAM FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%ZAKAT CHICAGO: $50k → 14%Selam Foundation: $5k → 9%ZAKAT CHICAGO: $50k → 14%FAITH: $24k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $24M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$24M · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$302k · 3 repeat orgs$503k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$302k
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
0%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • CO
    Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue -18%
  • IF
    IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN
    3× · 2021–2025 · $122k · revenue -54% · 36% of their budget
  • SF
    SELAM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TM
    TEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue +11%
  • MA
    MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +68%
  • IM
    INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
The Noor Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Dallas Islamic Foundation
Religion
4
Muslimahs United

Muslimahs united was founded on islamic principles of justice, integrity, and commitment to community services. we aim to offer support, grounded in islamic practice of justice for muslim women of color, and all women who are affected by…

Civil Rights
5
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
6
Third Pillar Islamic Charity

Third Pillar USA is a charity organization based in the United States dedicated to alleviating poverty in the local and global community. Our team comprises of passionate individuals from across the Bay Area working in various professions…

Religion
7
Rehmat Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Zakah Aid and Charity Assisting Humanity

Zakat, aid and charity assisting humanity (zacah) is a minnesota-based grassroots organization dedicated to the collection and re-distribution of wealth, including zakat (mandatory charitable tax for all muslims) and sadaqah (any…

Religion
9
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
10
Muslimahs Against Abuse Center

The mission is to empower and educate women and young girls of color to overcome their past traumas and live successful lives

Human Services
11
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
12
Masjidullah Incorporated

Masjidullah, Inc. is a faith-based community institution in Philadelphia's West Oak Lane neighborhood. Guided by the Holy Qur'an, the example of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and the leadership legacy of Imam W. Deen…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Muslim Womens Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Star Foundation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago: $150,000 · Human ServicesCouncil of Islamic Organizations of Grea…TEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INCSELAM FOUNDATION: $30,190 · Human ServicesSELAM FOUNDATIONFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $24,190 · Human ServicesFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate…+1 more: $9,175 · Human ServicesMASJID AL-ISLAM-DALLAS TEXAS: $60,000 · OtherMASJID AL-ISLAM-DALLAS TEX…Texas Women's Foundation: $50,530 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationPILLARS OF PEACE INC: $20,530 · OtherPILLARS OF PEACE INCPROJECT DOWNTOWN ORLANDO INC: $11,060 · OtherPROJECT DOWNTOWN ORLANDO I…Muslim Husing Service: $10,000 · OtherBEAUTIFUL CYCLE NON-PROFIT: $10,000 · OtherA CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $25,000 · OtherA CONTINUOUS CHARITYPENNY APPEAL USA INC: $12,000 · OtherPENNY APPEAL USA INCIKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN: $122,011 · ReligionIKRAM FOUNDATION…INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $49,804 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY …MAHI INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMAHI INTERN…Muslim Community Center for Human Services: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMuslim Comm…MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCulinary Angels: $22,862 · Food & NutritionMATTER: $20,000 · Food & NutritionMUSLIMS GIVING BACK INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $42,000 · HealthCORNERSTONE MARRIAGE & FAMILY INTERVENTION: $5,000 · Health
Human Services$303,555Other$199,120Religion$122,011Community Improvement$84,804Arts & Culture$50,000Food & Nutrition$48,862Health$47,000

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 budgetCouncil of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago: $150,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetIKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN: $122,011 over 3y, 36% of budgetTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $50,530 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $49,804 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELAM FOUNDATION: $30,190 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetA CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCulinary Angels: $22,862 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPILLARS OF PEACE INC: $20,530 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMATTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENNY APPEAL USA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMuslim Community Center for Human Services: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetILM Foundation: $9,175 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMUSLIMS GIVING BACK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCORNERSTONE MARRIAGE & FAMILY INTERVENTION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

Islamic Relief USAAmerican Muslim Commu…Texas Instruments Fou…The Rockefeller Found…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Verizon FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Islamic Relief USAVA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Islamic Relief USA · American Muslim Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Muslim Aid America?

    Find your warmest path to Muslim Aid America 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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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