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Sabeen & Mairaj Foundation at a glance

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Sabeen & Mairaj 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.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$175kInternational$44kHealth$28kReligion$20kEducation$14kArts & Culture$8kHousing & Shelter$3kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE$125,000
PAKISTAN STROKE INITATIVE$25,000
SKM CANCER TRUST$25,000
CDRS$16,000
Individual grant recipient$5,600
CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE$3,000
ICO$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
DAWA CENTER$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$990
ZAINAB$900
Individual grant recipient$500
TARGET$12
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACTBLUE JUST FOREIGNPO: $500 → 8%GO FUN ME VARIUOSU: $2k → 7%BERRY VIRTUAL: $1k → 14%CDRS: $16k → 14%Edhi lnternational Foundation: $8k → 13%UNICEF USA: $8k → 17%EHSAASFOUNDATION: $1k → 20%ISLAMIC CENTER OF QUAD CITIES: $1k → 5%GHAMIDI CENTER OF ISLA: $1k → 8%DAWA CENTER: $2k → 16%IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC: $5k → 9%USA FOR UNHCR: $3k → 14%BKH Humanatarian Foundation: $1k → 11%OUR AIM FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%OLYMPIA PHARMACEUTICALS: $990 → 13%PAA TAMPA: $2k → 13%ICO: $3k → 13%SKM CANCER TRUST: $25k → 11%ST JUDE: $11k → 17%FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL: $10k → 7%ZAINAB: $900 → 8%CDRS: $1k → 4%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $3k → 9%PAKISTAN STROKE INITATIVE: $25k → 14%TODD SHEA: $6k → 14%EDHI USA: $6k → 13%SIUT NORTH AMERICA: $1k → 16%USA FOR UNHCR: $800 → 14%Our Aim Foundation: $2k → 12%ISTABA: $3k → 13%SHAUKAT KHANUM MEMORIAL TRUST: $8k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA: $2k → 17%FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL: $4k → 7%Abdul Sattar Edhi International Foundation: $819 → 13%SIUT North America: $1k → 16%USA for UNHCR: $800 → 14%MORGAN FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL: $4k → 12%Islamic Community of Wesely Chapel: $5k → 13%SHAUKAT KHANUM CANCER HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%Friends of Indus Hospital: $515 → 7%MASJID ALSALAM: $1k → 16%Heritage Presbyterian HOUSING INC: $3k → 12%MORGAN FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL: $2k → 12%Islamic Society of Pinellas County: $500 → 12%SCHWAB CHARITABLE: $175k → 12%COUNTRYSIDE CHRISTIAN: $4k → 12%Various Org: $366k → 12%Various Org: $48k → 12%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
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$487k · 8 repeat orgs$273k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
24

Total granted

$487k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • VO
    Various Org
    2× · 2023–2024 · $414k
  • OA
    OUR AIM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $27k · revenue -8%
  • C
    CDRS
    2× · 2021–2025 · $17k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • EL
    Edhi lnternational Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -21%
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
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
2
Indo American Development and Health Organization
International
3
International Health Services Foundation
Health
4
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
5
Rehmat Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
7
The Noor Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma
Philanthropy
9
Global Health Research Foundation
—
10
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
11
Nasrulla Haque Foundation
—
12
Shakir Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bkh Humanitarian Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Muhsen. 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

16 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. 16 of the 45 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various Org: $414,477 · OtherVarious OrgCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE: $128,000 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLESKM CANCER TRUST: $25,000 · Other+27 more: $99,430 · Other+27 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITA…+1 more: $300 · PhilanthropyOUR AIM FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,137 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,600 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $3,090 · International+2 more: $1,842 · InternationalPakistan Stroke Initiative: $25,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC: $14,793 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,040 · HealthSIUT NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,028 · HealthHeritage Presbyterian Housing Inc: $2,873 · Housing & ShelterMuhsen: $1,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OFPAKISTANI-DESCENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $300 · Community Improvement
Other$666,907Philanthropy$175,300International$44,669Health$43,861Housing & Shelter$2,873Human Services$1,000Community Improvement$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR AIM FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC: $14,793 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,137 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $3,090 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Presbyterian Housing Inc: $2,873 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIUT NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,028 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEHSAAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,023 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuhsen: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABDUL SATTAR EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $819 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILQUIS EDHI RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR AIM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Pakistan Stroke Initiative ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds Heritage Presbyterian Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SIUT NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds EHSAAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Muhsen ↗
  • Who funds BKH HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ABDUL SATTAR EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Zakia and Mian Family…Baxter International …Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…Paypal Charitable Giv…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Zakia and Mian Family Charitable Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zakia and Mian Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Baxter International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 Sabeen & Mairaj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sabeen & Mairaj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Heritage Presbyterian Housing Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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

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How do I get to Sabeen & Mairaj Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sabeen & Mairaj 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 45 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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