· Private foundation
Taj Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE | $50,000 |
| MASJID UTHMAN | $38,600 |
| NORTHWEST SUBURBAN COLLEGE OF BASIC AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES | $20,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| FIVE PILLARS FREE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,295 |
| ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $8,909 |
| ISLAMIC FOUNDATION | $8,274 |
| AL-KARIM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SPROUTS | $4,950 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,155 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASpringfield Arts Council Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +2%
- EREDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +96%
- IKIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC3× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- WCWilliam Carey Universityone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +9%
- IRISLAMIC RELIEF USAone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +8%
- UPUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
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
Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.
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…
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.
To provide education to muslim students.
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…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 79 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Springfield Arts Council Inc ↗
- 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 William Carey University ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- 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 Khalil Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSLIMS OF INDIAN ORIGIN ↗
- Who funds Indian American Muslim Council ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Taj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Taj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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