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Sarah 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$30kReligion$28kHealth$19kEnvironment$15kHuman Services$7kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$3kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAWAT-E-ISLAM INC$3,000
ISLAMIC FOUNDATION$2,000
PAKISTAN UNITED PARADE COMMITTEE$1,000
HUMAN NECESSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC$1,000
AL-MUSTAFA CHARITABLE TRUST$1,000
CARE & CURE$1,000
PAK AMERCIAN MEDICAL CENTER$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AL-MUSTAFA CHARITABLE TRUST: $1k → 6%AL-MUSTAFA CHARITABLE TRUST: $1k → 6%AL-MUSTAFA CHARITABLE TRUST: $1k → 6%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
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75k · 8 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$75k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+20%

Still filing today

25%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TM
    TIM MEDIA INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $30k
  • IF
    ISLAMIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $23k
  • PA
    PAK AMERICAN MEDICAL CENTER NFP
    5× · 2017–2021 · $10k

Funded once

  • SF
    SARWAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • BI
    BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • HN
    HUMAN NECCESSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
Rehmat Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Shakir Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
3
Darul Arqam
Religion
4
The Noor Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Allah Wale Trust Inc

To provide food and shelter to the poor people of pakistan

Food & Nutrition
6
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
7
Altaf & Nasreen Godil Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Nasrulla Haque Foundation
—
9
Alnoor Foundation
Religion
10
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
11
Dr Samin Sharma Family Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Alsajdah Foundation
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imran Khan Cancer Appeal Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sarwar Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 29 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)
11/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISLAMIC FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherISLAMIC FOUNDATIONSARWAR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherSARWAR FOUNDATIONBANGLADESH ISLAMIC CENTER: $5,000 · OtherBANGLADESH ISLAMIC CENTERHUMAN NECCESSITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherHUMAN NECCESSITY FOUNDATIONPAK AMERCIAN MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 · OtherSHAUKAT HOSPITAL: $3,000 · Other+12 more: $12,500 · Other+12 moreTIM MEDIA INC: $30,000 · ReligionTIM MEDIA INCDAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC: $3,000 · ReligionDAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC+1 more: $500 · ReligionPAK AMERICAN MEDICAL CENTER NFP: $10,000 · HealthPAK AMERIC…FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF…Al Mustafa Charitable Trust: $3,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN NECESSITY FOUNDATION WORLDWID: $1,000 · Human ServicesCARE & CURE INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY EDUCATION IN EXCELLENCE INC: $1,000 · EducationCarriers of Light: $500 · EducationShahid Afridi Foundation: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$65,000Religion$33,500Health$11,000Human Services$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Education$1,500Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARWAR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPAK AMERICAN MEDICAL CENTER NFP: $10,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetAl Mustafa Charitable Trust: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARE & CURE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetShahid Afridi Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEAF-REACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY EDUCATION IN EXCELLENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarriers of Light: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 TIM MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SARWAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAK AMERICAN MEDICAL CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds Al Mustafa Charitable Trust ↗
  • Who funds DAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds CARE & CURE INC ↗
  • Who funds Shahid Afridi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DEAF-REACH INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION IN EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN NECESSITY FOUNDATION WORLDWID ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Carriers of Light ↗

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.

Islamic Food & Nutrit…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of AmericaIL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of America · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Sarah Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sarah 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 29 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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