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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.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$204kInternational$112kHealth$63kHuman Services$46kEducation$13kPhilanthropy$5kScience & Tech$4kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%JUSOOR: $2k → 7%MERCY BAKERY: $3k → 20%PURE HANDS: $3k → 5%SAMS: $14k → 14%RAHAMA: $12k → 8%BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER: $35k → 21%MEDGLOBAL: $2k → 14%PURE HANDS - YEMEN: $2k → 5%SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDIACL SOCIETY: $12k → 14%RAHMA: $10k → 8%BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER: $20k → 21%MEDGLOBAL: $5k → 14%SYRIAN AMERICAN MED ASSOC: $7k → 14%RAHMA: $6k → 8%BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER: $10k → 21%SAMS: $20k → 14%SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDIACL SOCIETY: $6k → 14%HUDA SCHOOL MONTESSORI: $5k → 8%BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER: $5k → 21%SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDIACL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER: $3k → 21%LAKEPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 8%BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER: $2k → 21%NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSO: $10k → 8%THE HUDA CLINIC: $5k → 21%THE HUDA CLINIC: $5k → 21%THE HUDA CLINIC: $5k → 21%THE HUDA CLINIC: $5k → 21%SYRIAN AMERICAN RESCUE NETWORK: $10k → 8%HUDA CLINIC: $3k → 21%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $20k → 8%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $15k → 8%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 21%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $15k → 8%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $13k → 8%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $13k → 8%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $11k → 8%1001 INVENTIONS DETROIT: $4k → 21%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 8%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 8%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 8%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 8%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 8%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 8%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 8%THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $2k → 8%SARN: $2k → 8%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
MI
NY
PA
CA
KS
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$403k · 17 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
28

Total granted

$403k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+15%

Still filing today

41%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthReligionEducationOther
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

  • BA
    BOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +67%
  • WF
    Women for Humanity
    7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +35%
  • HU
    Health Unit on Davison Avenue
    5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • SA
    SYRIAN AMERICAN MED ASSOC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • WS
    WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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
Sema Us Inc

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.

Health
2
Muslim Aid America

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Physicians for Palestine
Health
4
Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
Civil Rights
5
Rahma Worldwide Aid and Development

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.

International
6
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
7
Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma
Philanthropy
8
Doctors for You International Co Vistex

To provide sustainable, equitable and effecient health care services to the most vulnerable individuals and communities around the world.

Health
9
Syrian American Medical Society-Midwest Foundation

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,…

Health
10
Nyc Medics

The organization was formed for the charitable purpose of alleviating suffering caused by natural disasters and other humanitarian crises in foreign countries.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Sudanese American Physicians Assn

To Help Needy People

International
12
Ameri Help Afghans Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 46 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $95,520 · OtherTHE MUSLIM UNITY CENTERSAMS: $34,000 · OtherSAMSRAHMA: $15,700 · OtherRAHMARAHAMA: $12,200 · OtherRAHAMASYRIAN AMERICAN RESCUE NETWORK: $10,500 · Other+29 more: $46,965 · Other+29 moreFASEELAH CHARITY: $65,500 · InternationalFASEELAH CHARITYWomen for Humanity: $32,900 · InternationalWomen for HumanityPURE HANDS INC: $4,500 · International+2 more: $1,100 · InternationalBOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER INC: $75,000 · ReligionBOSNIAN AMERICAN I…Health Unit on Davison Avenue: $23,000 · HealthHealth Unit on …SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20,713 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN…NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $9,500 · HealthNATIONAL ARAB A…MedGlobal Inc: $7,000 · HealthMedGlobal Inc+1 more: $1,000 · HealthJUSOOR: $2,000 · Education
Other$214,885International$104,000Religion$75,000Health$61,213Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSNIAN AMERICAN ISLAMIC CENTER INC: $75,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetFASEELAH CHARITY: $65,500 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetWomen for Humanity: $32,900 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $23,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20,713 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $9,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUSOOR: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH 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.

The Honest FoundationDr Nussri FoundationBasha FoundationThe Tabbaa FoundationThe Kashlan FoundationThe Fountain of Knowl…American Muslim Commu…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Honest FoundationMI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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