· Private foundation
Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of SHAKIL AHMED AND FARIA ABEDIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH AMERICAN BANGLADESHI ISLAMIC COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| MUSLIM ADVOCATES | $20,000 |
| UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PINE CREST SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ASSALAM CENTER OF BOCA RATON | $10,000 |
| PILLARS OF PEACE | $5,000 |
| MYLLIFE | $5,000 |
| TIM MEDIA | $5,000 |
| COMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of your 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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TFTHE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +1%
- WFWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +41%
MEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- MFMCGP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -55%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TLTHE LEWIS SCHOOL OF PRINCETONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
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…
Our mission is to our mission is to counter distortions and misconceptions about Islamic beliefs and practice to demonstrate the Islamic origins of modern values like the rule of law and sciences like market economics to advance the status…
Human Rights Project
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)
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…
Nadia's initiative is on a mission to create a world where women are able to live peacefully and communities that have experienced trauma and suffering are supported and redeveloped. we advocate for resources and policy changes needed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity Productions Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hadi Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 NORTH AMERICAN BANGLADESHI ISLAMIC COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds TIM MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MCGP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HADI INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CONNECTHER ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Foundation Of Artistry and Ballet ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE ↗
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: R&B Abbasi Foundation Inc · Barzinji Family Foundation · Sterling Charitable Gift Fund · American Muslim Community Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
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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