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Sidra Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k78 grants · $213k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYAAN ACADEMY | $123,080 |
| SYRIAN FORUM USA | $49,900 |
| RADIANT HANDS | $34,140 |
| CAIR (COUNSIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC R | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| JESUS SON OF MARY CTR | $20,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF GUNN HWY | $20,000 |
| ISLAMIC CTR OF TAMPA BAY | $13,500 |
| MUSLIM AID USA | $12,400 |
| RAHMA RELIEF FOUNDATION | $11,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| HEROIC HEARTS | $10,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those 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.
40 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- BABAYAAN ACADEMY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $396k · revenue +117%
- RHRADIANT HANDS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $63k · revenue +96%
- SSFUSA2× · 2022–2023 · $57k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- SSSyrian Sunrise Foundationone grant, 2017 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JJJSone grant, 2022 · $21k
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.
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
Muslimahs united was founded on islamic principles of justice, integrity, and commitment to community services. we aim to offer support, grounded in islamic practice of justice for muslim women of color, and all women who are affected by…
Human Rights Project
To spread islamic values to the globe through media
Carry out charitable initiatives that provide essential support and basic necessities to those in need.
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.
Zakat, aid and charity assisting humanity (zacah) is a minnesota-based grassroots organization dedicated to the collection and re-distribution of wealth, including zakat (mandatory charitable tax for all muslims) and sadaqah (any…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc and the most unlike its peers is Give From the Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 132 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 BAYAAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RADIANT HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SFUSA ↗
- Who funds CAIR-FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds A CONTINUOUS CHARITY ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Taleef Collective ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM AID AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DARUL QASIM ↗
- Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF HUNTINGTON ↗
- Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Muslim Community Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · Dasankop Family Foundation · Sahara Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · Verizon Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Syed Foundation · Barzinji Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Khizzar and Sarah Shaukat 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 Sidra 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Universal Academy of Florida Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Muslim Connection 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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