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Pious Projects of America
Pious projects fosters charitable giving to numerous causes that focus on improving all aspects of life for people and communities in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $95,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,292,734 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,197,734 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOSQUE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YAQEEN INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| CITCD | $10,000 |
| ORLAND PARK PRAYER CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE PSSF | $10,000 |
| AAEDF | $10,000 |
| PALOS ISLAMIC CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of your 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $16M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: VARIOUS RELIEF AID
Stated purpose: VARIOUS RELIEF AID
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY AID
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +107% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- YRYAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +107%
- CCAIR-CHICAGO6× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue +50%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ISLAMIC TEACHINGS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT3× · 2018–2020 · $54k · revenue +280%
Funded once
- IIISLAMINSPANISH INC ISLAMINSPANISH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +41%
- MLMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +13%
- MAMASJID AL-FAROAQ NFPone grant, 2018 · $9k
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.
Human Rights Project
Education
Religious Education
Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies
The organizations mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, and empower American Muslims and build coalitions to promote justice and mutual understanding through education, mediation,…
To foster critical thinking in the context of Islam
CAIR WA is a civil rights and advocacy organization dedicated to enhancing the understanding of Islam, protecting civil rights, promoting justice, and empowering American Muslims. The main goal of our programs and services is to provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Legal Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Annani American Education and. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CAIR-CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ISLAMIC TEACHINGS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ISLAMINSPANISH INC ISLAMINSPANISH INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds ANNANI AMERICAN EDUCATION AND ↗
- Who funds US Council of Muslim Organizations ↗
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: The Zakat Foundation of America · AbbVie Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · Waleed B Ali Foundation · United Hands Relief Inc · Muslim Community Center · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Pious Projects of America 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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