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Taj Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST SUBURBAN COLLEGE OF BASIC AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES | $61,000 |
| MASJID UTHMAN | $54,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE | $51,000 |
| WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $17,546 |
| IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC | $13,000 |
| ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ISLAMIC FOUNDATION | $7,900 |
| FIVE PILLARS FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF ORLANDO | $2,500 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE NETWORK | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN | $2,000 |
| DAYTON MERCY SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- EREDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +96%
- IKIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC3× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +244%
- IMISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA3× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IRISLAMIC RELIEF USAone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +8%
- UPUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +29%
- IMISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Established to represent the american muslim community and to advocate for human rights, tolerance, and justice in the united state and the world, and to foster interfaith and interethnic understanding.
Charitable, Religious and Educational
To provide education to muslim students.
Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.
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.
Darul Uloom is a nonprofit Islamic center that has been formed exclusively for educational and religious purposes. The center plays vital role in the lives of Muslims in the East of Saint Paul, Minnesota. The center is a place where…
Education
To promote equality, liberty and justice for all, by providing leadership through legal advocacy, policy engagement and civic education and by serving as a legal resource to promote the full and meaningful participation of muslims in…
CAIR WA is a civil rights and advocacy organization dedicated to enhancing the understanding of Islam, protecting civil rights, promoting justice, and empowering American Muslims. The main goal of our programs and services is to provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton Mercy Society and the most unlike its peers is Khalil 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 69 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 SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Benedictine University ↗
- Who funds IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Springfield Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds William Carey University ↗
- Who funds DAYTON MERCY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH ↗
- Who funds UNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSLIMS OF INDIAN ORIGIN ↗
- Who funds Khalil Foundation ↗
- Who funds Indian American Muslim Council ↗
- Who funds LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: American Muslim Community Foundation · Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of America · Haque Family Foundation · The Springfield Foundation · Walter S Quinlan Foundation · Zakia and Mian Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago · Della Selsor Tr Uw · Harry and Violet Turner 95 Charitable Trust · Wilson Sheehan Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Taj 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of New Haven — 2% 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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