Florida · Private foundation
Sahara Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $45k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $915k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Sahara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $45k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $52k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $52k | 68% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $40k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Muslim Relief and Charities | $97,075 | 4 | 0% |
| Kindi Academy | $8,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Islamic Relief USA | $3,810 | 4 | 0% |
| The Seed | $2,500 | 2 | 1% |
| United Mission For Relief & Development | $1,960 | 2 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Inc | $1,420 | 1 | 3% |
| The Zakat Foundation of America | $1,325 | 3 | 0% |
| Indian American Muslim Council | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
| A Continuous Charity | $1,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc | $1,050 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sahara Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Muslim Community Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Nakadar Foundation · The Syed Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ansaar USA for Relief and Development · Sattar Family Foundation · Sidra Foundation
How this is measured
About Sahara Foundation
- How much does Sahara Foundation give?
- Sahara Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $45,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sahara Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (53%), Health (18%), Education (16%).
- Who are Sahara Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Indian Muslim Relief and Charities ($97k), Kindi Academy ($9k), Islamic Relief USA ($4k).
- Does Sahara Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sahara Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sahara Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Muslim Community Foundation, Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation, The Tabbaa Foundation.
- Where is Sahara Foundation based?
- Sahara Foundation is based in FL.
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