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Muslim Community Center
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $169,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,461,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,292,027 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERICA | $17,000 |
| INTER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| ISLAMIC OASIS CENTER CO | $10,000 |
| RUHAMA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SOUND VISION FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| THE DEEN SHOW NFP | $7,500 |
| BARAKAH MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| MUSLIM ALLIANCE IN NORTH AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HUMANITY NFP | $5,000 |
| OJALA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSLIM AID AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CHI-CARE | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO SUDANSE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS | $5,000 |
| COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC ORGANIZATIONS OF G C | $5,000 |
| GUJARATI MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $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 human-services grants (FY20–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MIMedGlobal Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $101k · revenue +103%
- HHHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +28%
- IAIndian American Muslim Council4× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MSMASJID SALAHADEEN OF NORTH TEXAS INCone grant, 2023 · $6k
- ICISLAMIC CENTER OF MCLEAN COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IMISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +28%
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.
Community Services, Prayer arrangemrnts, Teachings of Islam and distribution of zakat funds inbetween poor communities.
To spread islamic values to the globe through media
Free medical services for the poor needy and elderly.
Charitable and social services
it is to unity the immigrates and give them access to education that will help them get settled and progress
Mumanitarian support poor muslim families
The advancement of Religion and the elimination of prejudice and discrimination based on religious beliefs
Community services dailey arraendemnets teaching of quran and collection and distribution of sadaqa or zakat for poor
religious organization providing religious services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Zakat Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Kitcc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 42 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 MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago ↗
- Who funds Indian American Muslim Council ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERIC DBA RISING STARS ISLAMIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAIR-CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds KITCC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ISLAMIC TEACHINGS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUMANITY NFP ↗
- Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE DEEN SHOW NFP ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM AID AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC OASIS CENTER CO ↗
- Who funds Ruhama Foundation ↗
- Who funds EQUALLYABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO SUDANESE AMERICAN A ↗
- Who funds BAYAN ↗
- Who funds OJALA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARAKAH MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Muslim Alliance in North America Inc ↗
- Who funds GUJARATI MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds ICNA Chicago Illinois Organization ↗
- Who funds Chi-Care ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN COMMUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Islamic Society of Northwest Suburbs of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Muhsen ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Muslim Community Foundation · Mumineen Family Foundation · Noor Munshi Foundation · Saif and Lubna Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · Yaqub Family Foundation · Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of America · The Zakat Foundation of America · Ansaar USA for Relief and Development · AAA Private Foundation · Mecca Center Charity Fund · The Syed 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 Muslim Community Center 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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