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Saya 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $457k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $214,750 |
| THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION | $192,034 |
| NEW HORIZON SCHOOL WESTSIDE | $50,000 |
| VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5000 | $44,422 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| MPAC FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| THE WOODDROW WILSON CENTER | $30,000 |
| WORLD MEMON ORGANIZATION USA INC | $20,000 |
| SHAHID AFRIDI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF SOUTHERN CAL | $11,650 |
| DEVELOPMENT-IN-LITERACY | $10,500 |
| NEW HORIZON SCHOOL LA | $10,000 |
| ZINDAGI TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NEW GROUND | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +79% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NHNEW HORIZON SCHOOL WESTSIDE8× · 2017–2024 · $377k · revenue +46%
- TJTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +81%
- TATHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100k
- RCRAHMA CENTERone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to provide an excellent islamic & academic education within an islamic environment to produce well rounded muslims and strong leaders.we seek to promote safe,caring, supportive environment where kids can attain them to…
Zaytuna college aims to educate and prepare morally committed professional, intellectual, and spiritual leaders, who are grounded in the islamic scholarly tradition and conversant with the cultural currents and critical ideas shaping…
The mission of alim academey / muslim community school is to produce well educated, moral, confident and innovative global citizens. the school is committed to academic excellence and islamic values; and strives to develop these in a safe,…
None
Charitable, Religious and Educational
Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.
Islamic Scholarship Fund's mission is to support American Muslim storytelling & increase representation in fields & occupations that make public policy & influence public opinion by providing scholarships, internships, fellowships, film…
Education of children.
New horizon is committed to providing students with an excellent academic education and firm grounding in moral and ethical values. new horizon fosters a dedication to god through virtuous living in a progressive islamic environment.
New Medina is a private educational institution comprised of both primary (Kindergarten through 5th grade) and secondary (6th through 12th grade) class levels. Our primary class levels offer a child-centered structure that fosters each…
Our mission to develop young Muslim leaders and communal platforms that address the social, emotional and mental wellbeing of our communities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islamic Center of Southern California and the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Healthcare Initiatives Now Empowering Humanity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEW HORIZON SCHOOL WESTSIDE ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Southern California School Of Theology ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds MEMON ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NISWA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE INITIATIVES NOW EMPOWERING HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Zindagi Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Emgage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Shahid Afridi Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Mission For Relief & Development ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Al-Ameen Foundation · Boukai Family Foundation · Ayesha Omar Khadbai Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Saya Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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