· Private foundation
Sayed 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 $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| FASEELAH CHARITY | $10,000 |
| SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDIACL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| MEDGLOBAL | $5,000 |
| WOMEN FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| HUDA CLINIC | $3,000 |
| FRATERNITE NOTRE DAME | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- BABOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +67%
- WFWomen for Humanity7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +35%
- HUHealth Unit on Davison Avenue5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +69%
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MED ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $7k
- WSWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
We provides medical assistance in disaster-affected and underserved areas, supports refugees, supplies experts for relief efforts, promotes medical education, and collaborates with similar NGOs globally.
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.
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 provide sustainable, equitable and effecient health care services to the most vulnerable individuals and communities around the world.
Our mission is to save lives and work to ensure a healthier future for all through medical relief and healthcare development on behalf of Syrian American healthcare professionals. Our vision is to be a leading humanitarian organization,…
The organization was formed for the charitable purpose of alleviating suffering caused by natural disasters and other humanitarian crises in foreign countries.
To Help Needy People
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bosnian American Islamic Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 46 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 BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FASEELAH CHARITY ↗
- Who funds Women for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Health Unit on Davison Avenue ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds JUSOOR ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL INC ↗
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 Honest Foundation · Dr Nussri Foundation · Basha Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Kashlan Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sayed 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.