Virginia · Public charity
Sterling Charitable Gift Fund
To receive and distribute contributions to qualified charitable organizations and individuals.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $360,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Sterling Charitable Gift Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $1.9M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $1.2M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.4M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.8M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $770k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.0M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $923k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $1.3M | 79% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary | $1,828,912 | 9 | 19% |
| Center for Islam in the Contemporary World | $1,342,000 | 5 | 45% |
| Shenandoah University | $897,900 | 7 | 0% |
| All Dulles Area Muslim Society | $710,430 | 8 | n/a |
| The Maqasid Institute | $372,500 | 7 | 33% |
| Georgetown University | $349,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Birmingham Islamic Society | $330,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Emgage Foundation Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 4% |
| International Interfaith Peace Corp | $210,000 | 4 | 77% |
| Mosul Recovery Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 50% |
Show all 123 grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($745k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sterling Charitable Gift Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Mirza Family Foundation · Barzinji Family Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · M Omar Ashraf Family Foundation · International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute · York Foundation · El-Hibri Foundation · Pillars Fund · Tabani Family Foundation · Altalib Family Foundation - Aff · Saif and Lubna Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sterling Charitable Gift Fund
- How much does Sterling Charitable Gift Fund give?
- Sterling Charitable Gift Fund reported 43 itemized grants totaling $1,940,517, out of $2,158,545 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sterling Charitable Gift Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Religion (24%), Education (18%).
- Who are Sterling Charitable Gift Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary ($1.8M), Center for Islam in the Contemporary World ($1.3M), Shenandoah University ($898k).
- Does Sterling Charitable Gift Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sterling Charitable Gift Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Mirza Family Foundation, Barzinji Family Foundation, American Muslim Community Foundation.
- Where is Sterling Charitable Gift Fund based?
- Sterling Charitable Gift Fund is based in VA.
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