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Sharrif Wilson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Sharrif Wilson Charitable Foundation

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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$280kPhilanthropy$181kCrime & Legal$120kArts & Culture$80kFood & Nutrition$60kHousing & Shelter$30kEducation$3k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY$75,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $120k → 17%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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$494k · 5 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$494k
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+1%

Still filing today

80%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $181k · revenue +19%
  • TA
    THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $140k · revenue +210%
  • PO
    PART OF THE SOLUTION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $110k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $120k · revenue +178%
  • MA
    MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • YA
    YEMENI AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +1% · 85% of their budget
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
Muslim Foundation of America Inc

Community service

Religion
2
Muslim Americans in Public Service

MAPS is a national non-partisan, nonprofit network of professionals and organizations that aim to create an enabling ecosystem for Muslim American public servants to thrive both personally and professionally. Our mission is to support the…

Community Improvement
3
Arab American Community Networ

it is to unity the immigrates and give them access to education that will help them get settled and progress

Human Services
4
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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5
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
6
New York Immigration Coalition Inc

To unite immigrants, members and allies so all new yorkers can thrive.

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7
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
8
Muslim Community Center of New York Inc

Charitable social service providing food,education and charity to the needy.

Community Improvement
9
Bronx Muslim Center Usa Inc

Religious organization and comunity services. daily five times praying, friday weekly pray & religious community services+

Religion
10
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
11
Muslims of Long Island Inc

To help the people in need

Human Services
12
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc

Please see schedule o for full mission statement

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arab-American Family Support Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yemeni American Association. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $180,929 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONPART OF THE SOLUTION: $110,000 · Food & NutritionPART OF THE SOLUTIONCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $60,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $140,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ARAB-AMERICAN F…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PR…MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSLIM AME…YEMENI AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureYEMENI AME…Muslim American Society Inc: $75,000 · ReligionMuslim Ame…CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PART OF THE SOLUTION: $30,000 · OtherMUSLIM WOMENS INST COMMUNITY FOOD P: $10,000 · OtherST ANN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY BRONX CITADEL CORPS: $10,000 · OtherSARA HARP MINTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $2,875 · Other
Philanthropy$180,929Food & Nutrition$170,000Community Improvement$140,000Human Services$120,000Arts & Culture$80,000Religion$75,000Other$62,875

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $180,929 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetYEMENI AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 85% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sharrif Wilson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharrif Wilson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 13 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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