· Private foundation
The Afr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUDA SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| AL EKHLAS TRANING ACADMY | $5,000 |
| MIFFTAH | $4,000 |
| AL-FURQAAN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AL RAHMA | $3,000 |
| UNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| IRUSA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ISNA | $1,000 |
| ZAYTUNA COLLAGE | $1,000 |
| PUR HAND | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TQTHE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA3× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +158%
- TZTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA2× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +256%
- PHPURE HANDS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SSWASIAone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- JIJAMIA ISLAMIAone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Provide help to people who are victims of natural disasters or conflicts or suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, or lack of skills or economic opportunity.
Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
Zahra foundation provides humartian aid to the destiute orphans of iraq and people suffering extreme circumstances around the world
To provide material and financial assistance to relieve the sufferings of any and all persons affected by disasters. conflicts, disease. and hunger, irrespective of race. creed or ethnicity. To support schools and other learning centers…
To facilitate a Non-Political Movement for Positive Social Change and Community Empowerment through Mass Literacy, Enhanced Quality of Education,Universal Primary Healthcare and Grassroots Economic Development.
Human Rights Project
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 41 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 THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HUDA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AL RAHMA INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds AL-FURQAAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
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 Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · The Syed Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Afr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Afr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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