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Sterling Charitable Gift Fund

To receive and distribute contributions to qualified charitable organizations and individuals.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$440k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.9MReligion$2.1MEducation$1.5MInternational$1.1MCivil Rights$308kPublic Benefit$232kArts & Culture$160kPhilanthropy$104kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $1,225,160 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,510,640 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $285,480 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $394k
  • $250k+1 grant · $440k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER OF ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD - CICW$440,000
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSAL SCHOOL$87,500
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$81,300
ALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETY$74,750
SYRIAN FORM USA$50,000
HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA$49,700
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$47,500
THE MAQASID INSTITUTE$42,500
MOZAIC$17,000
FAITH$16,162
AL-SALAAM CENTER$16,000
THE ASU FOUNDATION$15,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FULLFIL MONMOUTH AND OCEAN: $10k → 11%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF AND CHARITIES: $7k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUSLIM FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF AND CHARITIES: $3k → 8%FAITH: $402k → 6%FAITH: $359k → 6%FAITH: $282k → 6%FAITH: $265k → 6%FAITH: $200k → 6%FAITH: $80k → 6%MOZAIC: $17k → 4%FAITH: $16k → 6%FAITH: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 57 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
82

Total granted

$7.3M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+14%

Still filing today

65%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalReligionHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FF
    Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +57%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    4× · 2020–2024 · $982k · revenue +119% · 45% of their budget
  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $798k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • LH
    LIGHT HOUSE GROUP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -3% · 33% of their budget
  • SF
    SINGH FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • AF
    ALTALIB FAMILY FOUNDATION - AFF
    one grant, 2022 · $97k · revenue 0% · 100% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
3
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
4
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
5
Amir Institute
Human Services
6
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
7
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
8
Dallas Islamic Foundation
Religion
9
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
10
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
11
The Noor Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Council for Democracy & Tolerance

SEE PART 1, LINE A MISSION AND PRINCIPLESAdvocating universal individual human rights without exceptions, Advocating literacy and education as the cornerstones to personal development and true humanity, Empowering and supporting…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alalusi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr18%36%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr15%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%23%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr15%13%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/107
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,361

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.

04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 151 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/86
Grantees still filing
57/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETY — $450,430 · OtherALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETYBIRMINGHAM ISLAMIC SOCIETY — $305,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM ISLAMIC SOCIETYNORTH AMERICAN IMAM FEDERATION — $150,000 · OtherISNA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $109,100 · Other25 MISCELLANOUS ORGANIXED CHARITIES LESS THEN 2500 — $106,443 · OtherSINGH FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND — $100,000 · OtherLIGHT HOUSE GROUP INC — $100,000 · OtherMulti-Faith Neighbors Network — $100,000 · Other+91 more — $1,418,656 · Other+91 moreFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary — $1,613,412 · Human ServicesFoundation for Approp…+5 more — $60,500 · Human ServicesSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $797,900 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSIT…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $349,700 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSIT…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $72,500 · Education+16 more — $362,282 · Education+16 moreCENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD — $982,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR ISLAM I…INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH PEACE CORP — $210,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL INTE…UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $120,000 · ReligionUNITY PRODUCTIONS …ADAMS ENDOWMENT FUND INC — $52,500 · Religion+4 more — $22,000 · ReligionMOSUL RECOVERY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · InternationalMILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS INC — $100,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING — $55,500 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA — $51,725 · InternationalThe Human Development Foundation of North America — $31,500 · InternationalB DESH FOUNDATION — $28,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $23,500 · International+5 more — $24,200 · InternationalTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE — $330,000 · PhilanthropyALTALIB FAMILY FOUNDATION - AFF — $97,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $33,500 · PhilanthropyEmgage Foundation Inc — $225,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,839,629Human Services$1,673,912Education$1,582,382Religion$1,386,500International$514,425Philanthropy$460,500Public Benefit$225,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary — $1,613,412 over 8y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD — $982,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $797,900 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $349,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE — $330,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc — $225,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH PEACE CORP — $210,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetMOSUL RECOVERY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMulti-Faith Neighbors Network — $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE GROUP INC — $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetMILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetALTALIB FAMILY FOUNDATION - AFF — $97,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $94,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSAL SCHOOL — $87,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $72,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Islamophobia Studies — $72,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING — $55,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetADAMS ENDOWMENT FUND INC — $52,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA — $51,725 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSFUSA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Community — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA — $49,700 over 1y, 25% of budgetMUSLIM EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL INC — $48,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE — $40,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMUSLIM AID AMERICA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT — $35,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Human Development Foundation of North America — $31,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetB DESH FOUNDATION — $28,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALLYABLE FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetIslamic Scholarship Fund — $20,334 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC ACADEMY OF ALABAMA- INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTERFAITH CONFERENCE OF METROPOLIT — $17,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMOZAIC — $17,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KARACHI ALUMNI A — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKHANDEKAR FAMILY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetIQRA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISLAMIC COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Mirza Family Foun…Barzinji Family Found…American Muslim Commu…Islamic Relief USAM Omar Ashraf Family …International Institu…York FoundationEl-Hibri FoundationPillars FundTabani Family Foundat…Altalib Family Founda…Saif and Lubna Founda…
The Mirza Family FoundationVA59.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sterling Charitable Gift Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Sterling Charitable Gift Fund?

Find your warmest path to Sterling Charitable Gift Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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