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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.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$195kReligion$139kEducation$46kPhilanthropy$38k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $95,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,292,734 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,197,734 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.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOSQUE FOUNDATION$25,000
YAQEEN INSTITUTE$20,000
AAEDF$10,000
PALOS ISLAMIC CENTER$10,000
THE PSSF$10,000
ORLAND PARK PRAYER CENTER$10,000
CITCD$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MLFA: $12k → 14%ISLAMINSPANISH: $14k → 16%USCMO: $6k → 14%DARUSSALAAM FOUNDATION: $19k → 7%CAIR-CHICAGO: $20k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $22k → 14%DARRUSSALAAM FOUNDATION: $19k → 7%CAIR-CHICAGO: $11k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%DARRUSSALAAM FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%CAIR-CHICAGO: $10k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%CITCD: $21k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%CAIR-CHICAGO: $10k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%CITCD: $17k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $14k → 14%CAIR-CHICAGO: $10k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%CITCD: $16k → 14%YAQEEN INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%CAIR-CHICAGO: $5k → 14%CITCD: $10k → 14%MASJID AL FAROOQ: $9k → 14%PALOS ISLAMIC CENTER: $10k → 14%MOSQUE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ORLAND PARK PRAYER CENTER: $10k → 14%THE PSSF: $10k → 14%AAEDF: $10k → 14%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.

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.

Middle East and North Africa$13M · 79% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: VARIOUS RELIEF AID

Sub-Saharan Africa$3.2M · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: VARIOUS RELIEF AID

South Asia$101k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY AID

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 4 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$303k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+107%
+41%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
Civil RightsReligionSocial ScienceEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YR
    YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +107%
  • C
    CAIR-CHICAGO
    6× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue +64%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR ISLAMIC TEACHINGS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    3× · 2018–2020 · $54k · revenue +280%

Funded once

  • II
    ISLAMINSPANISH INC ISLAMINSPANISH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +41%
  • ML
    MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +13%
  • MA
    MASJID AL-FAROAQ NFP
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
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
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
3
American Imam Academy

Education

Religion
4
Islamic School of Miami Inc

Religious Education

Religion
5
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
6
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
7
American Islamic College

Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies

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8
Cair Michigan Inc

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,…

International
9
Center for Islam in the Contemporary World
Religion
10
American Learning Institute for Muslims

To foster critical thinking in the context of Islam

Social Science
11
Council On American-Islamic Relations

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…

Human Services
12
Center for Islamophobia Studies

The mission of the Center for Islamophobia Studies is to develop a sustained response that both examines the roots of Islamophobia and provides the empirical data to quantify the problem. The Center is focused on developing the tools…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Legal Fund of America; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $137,477 · Civil RightsYAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCCAIR-CHICAGO: $66,214 · Civil RightsCAIR-CHICAGOMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $11,700 · Civil RightsMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICADARUSSALAM FOUNDATION: $45,804 · OtherDARUSSALAM FOUNDATIONMOSQUE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherMOSQUE FOUNDATIONTHE PRAYER CENTER TRUST: $10,000 · OtherTHE PRAYER CENTER TRUSTMAS CHICAGO: $10,000 · OtherMAS CHICAGOCITCD: $10,000 · OtherCITCDMASJID AL-FAROAQ NFP: $8,525 · OtherMASJID AL-FAROAQ NFPTHE CENTER FOR ISLAMIC TEACHINGS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $53,776 · ReligionTHE CENTER FOR ISL…ISLAMINSPANISH INC ISLAMINSPANISH INC: $13,857 · ReligionISLAMINSPANISH INC…Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund: $10,000 · EducationANNANI AMERICAN EDUCATION AND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUS Council of Muslim Organizations: $6,400 · Social Science
Civil Rights$215,391Other$109,329Religion$67,633Education$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Social Science$6,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYAQEEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $137,477 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCAIR-CHICAGO: $66,214 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ISLAMIC TEACHINGS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $53,776 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetISLAMINSPANISH INC ISLAMINSPANISH INC: $13,857 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $11,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANNANI AMERICAN EDUCATION AND: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetUS Council of Muslim Organizations: $6,400 over 1y, 6.3% 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.

The Zakat Foundation …AbbVie FoundationAmerican Muslim Commu…Waleed B Ali Foundati…United Hands Relief I…Muslim Community Cent…Raymond James Charita…Verizon FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Renaissance Charitabl…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
The Zakat Foundation of AmericaIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Pious Projects of America?

    Find your warmest path to Pious Projects of 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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