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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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$48kHealth$13kYouth Development$13kHuman Services$10kInternational$9kCivil Rights$7kEducation$3kPhilanthropy$997Other$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$264k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASJID ABU BAKR SIDDIQUE$5,000
AMERICAN ISLAMIC TRUST$4,060
MUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES OF OHIO$3,000
CAIR OHIO$2,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN$2,000
MUSLIM CLINIC OF OHIO$2,000
MY PROJECT USA$2,000
ISLAMIC CENTER OF DELAWARE COUNTY - POLARIS MASJID$2,000
IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC$1,500
HIDAYAH INSTITUTE$1,500
PAKISTAN CHILDRENS HEART FOUNDATION NORTH AMERICA INC$1,000
INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES$1,000
CUTCHI MEMON JAMAAT OF NORTH AMERICA INC$1,000
HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC$540
MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE$500
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $2k → 16%THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $1k → 16%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $540 → 8%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $1k → 8%THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $140 → 16%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OH
CT
CA
KY
VA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 12 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$78k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalReligionCivil RightsOther
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

  • CO
    COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
  • PC
    Pakistan Childrens Heart Foundation North America Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +7%
  • HI
    HIDAYAH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • MY
    MUSLIM YOUTH OF CENTRAL OHIO
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -66%
  • SB
    SONAR BANGLA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +16%
  • AS
    ABUBAKAR SIDDIQUE ISLAMIC CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
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
2
Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma
Philanthropy
3
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
4
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
5
International Institute of Islamic Medicine

International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application

Human Services
6
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
7
Islamic Ummah Relief Corp

Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans

Human Services
8
Pakistan Children Relief

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

Education
9
The Noor Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Muslim Response Usa for Relief and Development

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…

International
11
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
12
Rehmat Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand for Relief and Development Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ISLAMIC TRUST: $34,920 · OtherAMERICAN ISLAMIC TRUSTCUTCHI MEMON JAMAAT OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $3,000 · OtherCUTCHI MEMON JAMAAT OF NORTH AMERICA INCMUSLIM CLINIC OF OHIO: $3,000 · OtherMUSLIM CLINIC OF OHIOISLAMIC CENTER OF DELAWARE COUNTY - POLARIS MASJID: $2,000 · OtherABUBAKAR SIDDIQUE ISLAMIC CENTER: $2,000 · Other+11 more: $6,635 · Other+11 moreMUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES OF OHIO: $9,000 · ReligionMUSLIM FAMILY S…MASJID ABU BAKR SIDDIQUE: $5,000 · ReligionMASJID ABU BAKR…MUSLIM YOUTH OF CENTRAL OHIO: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSLIM YOUTH O…MY PROJECT USA: $4,750 · Youth DevelopmentMY PROJECT USAHIDAYAH INSTITUTE: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentHIDAYAH INSTIT…Pakistan Childrens Heart Foundation North America Inc: $4,000 · HealthPakistan C…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN: $3,625 · HealthAMERICAN A…SONAR BANGLA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthSONAR BANG…COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $7,100 · Civil RightsTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $2,705 · Human ServicesIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $2,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $540 · Human ServicesPURE HANDS INC: $1,500 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,000 · InternationalRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $500 · International
Other$51,555Religion$14,000Youth Development$13,250Health$9,625Civil Rights$7,100Human Services$5,245International$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES OF OHIO: $9,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $7,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMASJID ABU BAKR SIDDIQUE: $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMUSLIM YOUTH OF CENTRAL OHIO: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMY PROJECT USA: $4,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPakistan Childrens Heart Foundation North America Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN: $3,625 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIDAYAH INSTITUTE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $2,705 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSONAR BANGLA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $184 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

American Muslim Commu…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…Bright Funds Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…
American Muslim Community FoundationCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Saaaf Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Saaaf Foundation 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 31 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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