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Sterling Charitable Gift Fund

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

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$360k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.9MReligion$2.1MEducation$1.5MInternational$1.1MCivil Rights$308kPublic Benefit$232kArts & Culture$160kPhilanthropy$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $1,940,517, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,158,545 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $218,028 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $346k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $906k
  • $250k+2 grants · $620k
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER OF ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD - CICW$360,000
ALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETY$260,000
FAITH$215,500
TEXAS SPEAKERS BUREAU$120,000
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION$120,000
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$100,000
HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA$90,175
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$60,000
OASIS INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$50,642
PIOUS PROJECT OF AMERICA$50,000
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION$50,000
UNIVERSAL SCHOOL$50,000
THE MAQASID INSTITUTE$42,500
MERCY WITHOUT LIMITS$27,000
BURMINGHAM ISLAMIC SOCIETY$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 8%FULLFIL MONMOUTH AND OCEAN: $10k → 11%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF AND CHARITIES: $7k → 8%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF AND CHARITIES: $6k → 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: $216k → 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
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

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 63 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
86

Total granted

$8.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+14%

Still filing today

62%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $458k 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
EducationInternationalReligionHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FF
    Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +57%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +119% · 45% of their budget
  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $898k · 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
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
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
3
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
4
International Institute of Islamic Medicine

International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application

Human Services
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
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
7
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
8
Amir Institute
Human Services
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
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…

—
11
Ummah Relief International

Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.

International
12
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 170 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/98
Grantees still filing
69/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETY: $710,430 · OtherALL DULLES AREA MUSLIM SOCIETYBIRMINGHAM ISLAMIC SOCIETY: $330,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM ISLAMIC SOCIETYNORTH AMERICAN IMAM FEDERATION: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSAL SCHOOL: $137,500 · OtherSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $131,000 · Other+106 more: $2,226,449 · Other+106 moreFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $1,828,912 · Human ServicesFoundation for Appro…+6 more: $74,250 · Human ServicesSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $897,900 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSI…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $349,700 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSI…HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA: $139,875 · EducationHURON UNIVERSITY CO…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $132,500 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVER…+16 more: $334,582 · Education+16 moreCENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: $1,342,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR ISLAM IN…INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH PEACE CORP: $210,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL INTER…UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $120,000 · ReligionUNITY PRODUCTIONS F…+7 more: $131,142 · Religion+7 moreMOSUL RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · InternationalMILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS INC: $100,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $61,925 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING: $55,500 · InternationalB DESH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $33,500 · InternationalThe Human Development Foundation of North America: $31,500 · InternationalMercy Without Limits: $27,000 · InternationalPEARL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · International+4 more: $14,200 · InternationalTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE: $372,500 · PhilanthropyALTALIB FAMILY FOUNDATION - AFF: $97,000 · PhilanthropyPIOUS PROJECTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 · PhilanthropyKARAM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $33,500 · PhilanthropyEmgage Foundation Inc: $225,000 · Public Benefit
Other$3,685,379Human Services$1,903,162Education$1,854,557Religion$1,803,142International$578,625Philanthropy$573,000Public Benefit$225,000

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 budgetFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $1,828,912 over 9y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: $1,342,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $897,900 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE: $372,500 over 7y, 33% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $349,700 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetHURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION USA: $139,875 over 2y, 25% of budgetUNIVERSAL SCHOOL: $137,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $132,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $131,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $111,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE GROUP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetMulti-Faith Neighbors Network: $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetALTALIB FAMILY FOUNDATION - AFF: $97,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCenter for Islamophobia Studies: $72,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $61,925 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING: $55,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetADAMS ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $52,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetWorld Community: $50,000 over 1y, 11% 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 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 budgetISLAMIC ACADEMY OF ALABAMA- INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetB DESH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT: $35,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetEQUALLYABLE FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetIslamic Scholarship Fund: $20,334 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEARL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH CONFERENCE OF METROPOLIT: $17,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMOZAIC: $17,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKHANDEKAR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIQRA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KARACHI ALUMNI A: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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

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 Sterling Charitable Gift Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sterling Charitable Gift Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 170 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 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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