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Penny Appeal USA Inc

We are working to alleviate poverty through sustainable programs and emergency relief.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$349kReligion$154kHuman Services$121kInternational$83kPhilanthropy$62kHealth$23kScience & Tech$20kEducation$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $43,703 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,276,357 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,232,654 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$6,868
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSLIM WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION$25,000
MASJID ASH SHAHEED$6,868
ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF THE WASHINGTON AREA$6,460
ILM FOUNDATION$5,375
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISLAMIC CENTER OF THE TRIAD: $33k → 16%REFUGEE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $12k → 14%PALESTINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $18k → 12%MOZAIC: $10k → 4%HELPERS TO GOOD: $10k → 11%ILM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ISLAMIC CENTER OF THE TRIAD: $30k → 16%REFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK: $10k → 14%PALESTINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 12%ANSAAR-UL-BIRR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $9k → 11%ISLAMIC CENTER OF THE TRIAD: $16k → 16%BURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY OF GEORGIA: $11k → 14%PALESTINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 12%PALESTINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $3.1M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$1.6M · 50% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RESPONSE; QURBANI · EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FEED OUR WORLD; ORPHANKIND; QURBANI; WINTER RELIEF · WINTER RELIEF

Russia and Neighboring States$694k · 22% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Sub-Saharan Africa$459k · 15% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RESPONSE · FEED OUR WORLD; QURBANI

South Asia$407k · 13% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: REGULAR HAND PUMPS AND WELLS · HAND PUMPS & WELLS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; WINTER RELIEF · FIDYAH/KAFFARA; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; WINTER RELIEF; FEED OUR WORLD

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. 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$419k · 12 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
26

Total granted

$419k
$410k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+96%

Still filing today

58%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionInternationalHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • IC
    ISLAMIC CENTER OF THE TRIAD REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION COMMUNITY SERVICE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $78k · revenue +72% · 42% of their budget
  • MW
    MUSLIM WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION CORP
    4× · 2021–2024 · $63k · revenue +26%
  • Palestinian American Community Cent
    4× · 2020–2023 · $52k · revenue +171%

Funded once

  • EI
    EVERYONEEATZ INC
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • BI
    BAITULMAAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue ×12

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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
Al-Rahmah Islamic Center Inc

Charitable and social services

Religion
2
Islamic Circle of North America Ga Inc

Charitable and social services

Religion
3
Muslim Community Support Services Inc

Religious non profit engagement in social services

Community Improvement
4
Islamic Society of Greater Nashua

religious organization providing religious services

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5
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.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
American Muslim & Multifaith Women

Interfaith Iftar;Ramadan Food drive;Afghan refugee taskforce;Youth panel;Interfaith summit;International ReligiousFreedom Roundtable;Womens Summit;Job Opportunities and

Human Services
7
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
8
Arab American Community Networ

it is to unity the immigrates and give them access to education that will help them get settled and progress

Human Services
9
Muslim Social Services Agency

Social Services

Human Services
10
Masjid Rahmatulilalamen Inc

Religious organization

Religion
11
Muslims of Long Island Inc

To help the people in need

Human Services
12
Chicago Sunni Muslim Society

Community Services, Prayer arrangemrnts, Teachings of Islam and distribution of zakat funds inbetween poor communities.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Women's Organization Corp and the most unlike its peers is Humanitarian African Relief Organization. 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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%32%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EVERYONEEATZ INC — $60,000 · OtherEVERYONEEATZ INCIndiana University School of Medicine — $50,000 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineDAR AL-HIJRAH ISLAMIC CENTER — $32,830 · OtherDAR AL-HIJRAH ISLAMIC CENTERISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INC — $27,500 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INCEliminate the Digital Divide — $20,000 · OtherEliminate the Digital DivideMASJID ASH SHAHEED — $19,883 · OtherMASJID ASH SHAHEEDISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF RALEIGH — $19,002 · OtherISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF RALEIGHISLAMIC SOCIETY OF THE WASHINGTON AREA — $13,960 · OtherMUSLIM WOMENS ASSOCIATION — $12,500 · OtherSOMEWHERE TO GO — $12,127 · Other+7 more — $51,184 · Other+7 moreISLAMIC CENTER OF THE TRIAD REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION COMMUNITY SERVICE — $77,918 · Human ServicesISLAMIC CENTER OF THE TRIAD…Palestinian American Community Cent — $52,000 · Human ServicesPalestinian American Commun…REFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INC — $21,875 · Human ServicesREFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INCHELPERS TO GOOD INC — $19,264 · Human ServicesHELPERS TO GOOD INCBURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY OF GEORGIA INC — $10,900 · Human ServicesBURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY …MOZAIC — $10,350 · Human Services+2 more — $11,755 · Human Services+2 moreMUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY - DC METROPOLITAN AREA — $37,500 · ReligionMUSLIM AMERIC…Muslim American Society Inc — $30,000 · ReligionMuslim Americ…MUSTAFA CENTER INC — $18,000 · ReligionMUSTAFA CENTE…DAR AL TAQWA INCORPORATED — $7,500 · ReligionDAR AL TAQWA …SAHABA INITIATIVE INC — $7,100 · ReligionSAHABA INITIA…BAITULMAAL INC — $45,000 · InternationalBAITULMAAL…HUMANITARIAN AFRICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $20,768 · InternationalHUMANITARI…SYRIAN COMMUNITY NETWORK — $10,000 · InternationalSYRIAN COM…TASHIRAT FOUNDATION — $5,000 · InternationalTASHIRAT F…MUSLIM WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION CORP — $62,950 · Community ImprovementMUSLIM WO…RADIANT HANDS INC — $10,085 · Community ImprovementRADIANT H…CORNERSTONE MARRIAGE & FAMILY INTERVENTION — $34,500 · HealthSUDANESE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 · HealthAmerican Muslim Community Foundation — $12,000 · PhilanthropyAMOUD FOUNDATION — $10,950 · Philanthropy
Other$318,986Human Services$204,062Religion$100,100International$80,768Community Improvement$73,035Health$47,000Philanthropy$22,950

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetISLAMIC CENTER OF THE TRIAD REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION COMMUNITY SERVICE — $77,918 over 3y, 42% of budgetMUSLIM WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION CORP — $62,950 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetPalestinian American Community Cent — $52,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE MARRIAGE & FAMILY INTERVENTION — $34,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetREFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INC — $21,875 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHUMANITARIAN AFRICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $20,768 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHELPERS TO GOOD INC — $19,264 over 2y, 16% of budgetMUSTAFA CENTER INC — $18,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSUDANESE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Muslim Community Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMOUD FOUNDATION — $10,950 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY OF GEORGIA INC — $10,900 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetMOZAIC — $10,350 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetRADIANT HANDS INC — $10,085 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMUSLIM COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSYRIAN COMMUNITY NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDAR AL TAQWA INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAHABA INITIATIVE INC — $7,100 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWAFA HOUSE INC — $6,380 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILM Foundation — $5,375 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTASHIRAT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Islamic Relief USAGofundmeorgThe Zakat Foundation …American Muslim Commu…Renaissance Charitabl…Analog Devices Founda…The Fountain of Knowl…International Rescue …Texas Instruments Fou…Verizon FoundationTides FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…
Islamic Relief USAVA45.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Islamic Relief USA · Gofundmeorg · The Zakat Foundation of America · American Muslim Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · International Rescue Committee INC · Texas Instruments Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Tides Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Penny Appeal USA 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • Wafa House Inc — 51% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Penny Appeal USA Inc?

Find your warmest path to Penny Appeal USA Inc 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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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