· Private foundation
Samad 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIHRAAB FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MUSLIM AID USA | $5,000 |
| AFGHAN ASSOCIATION OF PUGET SOUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC | $5,000 |
| ABUBAKR ISLAMIC CENTER | $4,000 |
| UMAR AL FAROOQ MOSQUE | $3,000 |
| AL HUDA ISLAMIC CNTER -KENT | $2,000 |
| HOME INT | $1,000 |
| MUSLIM AMERICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AL KARIM ISLAMIC CENTER | $1,000 |
| OUR HOPE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCHILDLIFE FOUNDATION AMERICA I2× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +361%
- MAMUSLIM AID AMERICA2× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +506%
- HFHIDAYA FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- IRISLAMIC RELIEF USAone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +14%
- COCHILDREN OF ADAM USAone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
The foundation is a private organization whose mission is to support the poor and needy in marginalized communities working for their rights, to provide children with access to education, and to provide the poor with access to basic health…
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OBAT HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds CORDOBA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHILDLIFE FOUNDATION AMERICA I ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds MIHRAAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM AID AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Uplift Dawah ↗
- Who funds HIDAYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds EHSAAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Muslim American Youth Foundation ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ms Khan Family Foundation Inc · Zakia and Mian Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Tabbaa Foundation · Darul Sadaqa786 · Tabani Family Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samad Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samad Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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