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Saaaf Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASJID ABU BAKR SIDDIQUE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ISLAMIC TRUST | $4,060 |
| MUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES OF OHIO | $3,000 |
| MY PROJECT USA | $2,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF DELAWARE COUNTY - POLARIS MASJID | $2,000 |
| MUSLIM CLINIC OF OHIO | $2,000 |
| CAIR OHIO | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN | $2,000 |
| HIDAYAH INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC | $1,500 |
| CUTCHI MEMON JAMAAT OF NORTH AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| PAKISTAN CHILDRENS HEART FOUNDATION NORTH AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC | $540 |
| MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $500 |
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 (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 67% 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
- COCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
- PCPakistan Childrens Heart Foundation North America Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +7%
- HIHIDAYAH INSTITUTE3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- MYMUSLIM YOUTH OF CENTRAL OHIOone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -66%
- SBSONAR BANGLA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +16%
- ASABUBAKAR SIDDIQUE ISLAMIC CENTERone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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.
Human Rights Project
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
Pakistan Children Relief aims to provide a prosperous and bright future to young leaders of Pakistan by empowering them with quality education, healthy environment and basic needs
To provide material and financial assistance to relieve the sufferings of any and all persons affected by disasters. conflicts, disease. and hunger, irrespective of race. creed or ethnicity. To support schools and other learning centers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand for Relief and Development Inc and the most unlike its peers is Masjid Abu Bakr Siddique. 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 MUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH ↗
- Who funds MASJID ABU BAKR SIDDIQUE ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM YOUTH OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds MY PROJECT USA ↗
- Who funds Pakistan Childrens Heart Foundation North America Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN ↗
- Who funds HIDAYAH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds SONAR BANGLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indian Muslim Relief and Charities ↗
- Who funds IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
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 · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Saaaf Foundation 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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