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Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Inc

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.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$364kCivil Rights$102kEducation$97kArts & Culture$55kHuman Services$42kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$24kInternational$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSLIM ADVOCATES$20,000
NORTH AMERICAN BANGLADESHI ISLAMIC COMMUNITY$20,000
PINE CREST SCHOOL$10,000
UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
PILLARS OF PEACE$10,000
MYLLIFE$5,000
DWIGHT HALL AT YALE$5,000
THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE$5,000
TIM MEDIA$5,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$2,500
SWEET DREAM MAKERS INC$1,000
ASSALAM CENTER INC$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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MUSLIM ADVOCATES: $10k → 10%PILLARS OF PEACE: $22k → 17%PINE CREST: $15k → 13%THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE: $5k → 21%COMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAM: $10k → 6%INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC STUDIES INC: $20k → 8%UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%HADI INITIATIVE: $8k → 6%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $5k → 9%UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%MUSLIM ADVOCATES: $10k → 10%PILLARS OF PEACE: $10k → 17%ASSALAM CENTER OF BOCA RATON: $20k → 11%PINE CREST: $15k → 13%MYLLIFE: $5k → 21%COMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAM: $5k → 6%UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%MYLLIFE: $5k → 6%TIM: $5k → 8%MUSLIM ADVOCATES: $10k → 10%PILLARS OF PEACE: $10k → 17%ASSALAM CENTER OF BOCA RATON: $10k → 11%PINE CREST SCHOOL: $10k → 13%THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE: $5k → 21%COMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAM: $5k → 6%PRINCETON CHARTER SCHOOL CAPITAL AND ENDOWMENT FUND: $20k → 11%TIM MEDIA: $5k → 8%MUSLIM ADVOCATES: $10k → 10%PILLARS OF PEACE: $5k → 17%ASSALAM CENTER OF BOCA RATON: $10k → 11%PINE CREST SCHOOL: $10k → 13%THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE: $5k → 21%COMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAM: $5k → 6%THE LEWIS SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $10k → 11%TIM MEDIA: $5k → 8%PILLARS OF PEACE: $5k → 17%ASSALAM CENTER OF BOCA RATON: $10k → 11%THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE: $5k → 21%PRINCETON CHARTER SCHOOL CAPITAL AND ENDOWMENT FUND: $10k → 11%TIM MEDIA: $5k → 8%THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE: $5k → 21%MEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $8k → 11%TIM MEDIA: $5k → 8%AMERICA INDIVISIBILE: $10k → 14%MUSLIM CENTER OF GREATER PRINCETON: $20k → 11%TIM MEDIA: $5k → 8%MUSLIM CENTER OF GREATER PRINCETON: $20k → 11%MUSLIM CENTER OF GREATER PRINCETON: $20k → 11%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

MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$774k · 18 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$774k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+51%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
ReligionEducationCivil RightsHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TF
    THE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +1%
  • PC
    PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +9%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • MF
    MCGP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -55%
  • TL
    THE LEWIS SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

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,…

International
3
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

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…

International
4
Minaret of Freedom Institute

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…

Health
5
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
6
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
7
The Malala Fund

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…

Education
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
9
Institute for Eastwest Studies Inc

Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)

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10
Amir Institute
Human Services
11
Nadia's Initiative Inc

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…

International
12
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family and Youth Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSLIM CENTER OF GREATER PRINCETON INC: $60,000 · OtherMUSLIM CENTER OF GREATER PRINCETON INCPILLARS OF PEACE INC: $52,000 · OtherPILLARS OF PEACE INCASSALAM CENTER OF BOCA RATON: $50,000 · OtherASSALAM CENTER OF BOCA RATONCOMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAM: $37,000 · OtherCOMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAMPINE CREST: $30,000 · OtherPINE CRESTPRINCETON CHARTER SCHOOL CAPITAL AND ENDOWMENT FUND: $30,000 · OtherPRINCETON CHARTER SCHOOL CAPITAL AND ENDOWME…UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION+10 more: $49,000 · Other+10 moreNORTH AMERICAN BANGLADESHI ISLAMIC COMMUNITY INC: $240,000 · ReligionNORTH AMERICAN BANGLADESHI ISLAMIC COMMUNI…TIM MEDIA INC: $33,500 · ReligionTIM MEDIA INCMCGP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · ReligionMCGP FOUNDATION INCUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · ReligionUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATIONMUSLIM ADVOCATES: $110,000 · Civil RightsMUSLIM ADVOCAT…+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsTHE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE: $28,500 · Social SciencePINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationDWIGHT HALL AT YALE: $6,000 · EducationNew York University: $1,000 · EducationWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $17,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $6,250 · InternationalMEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $9,500 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $1,000 · HealthSweet Dream Makers Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTHER: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$328,000Religion$313,500Civil Rights$111,000Social Science$28,500Education$27,000International$23,250Health$10,500Philanthropy$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 budgetNORTH AMERICAN BANGLADESHI ISLAMIC COMMUNITY INC: $240,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMUSLIM ADVOCATES: $110,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetPILLARS OF PEACE INC: $52,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE: $28,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCGP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $9,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHADI INITIATIVE: $7,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT HALL AT YALE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTHER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MCGP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MEDINA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds HADI INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds New Jersey Foundation Of Artistry and Ballet ↗
  • Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
  • Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTHER ↗

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.

R&B Abbasi Foundation…Barzinji Family Found…Sterling Charitable G…American Muslim Commu…Proteus Fund IncThe Chicago Community…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
R&B Abbasi Foundation IncNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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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 33 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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