· Private foundation
The Al-Ameen 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $453k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Philanthropic Trust WFDAF | $300,000 |
| MPAC Foundation | $170,000 |
| New Horizon School Westside | $104,400 |
| UCLA Foundation | $75,000 |
| UBS Optimus Foundation | $53,700 |
| Rahma Center | $50,000 |
| New Horizon School - Los Angeles | $47,100 |
| Other grants under 5000 each | $15,930 |
| SCIPPER USA | $15,000 |
| New Horizon School Pasadena | $12,000 |
| Islamic Center of Southern California | $10,000 |
| Kinder USA | $7,500 |
| National Institute of Child Health | $7,000 |
| The Citizens Foundation | $5,000 |
| ZINDAGI TRUST | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The Al-Ameen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNEW HORIZON SCHOOL WESTSIDE7× · 2018–2024 · $560k · revenue +44%
THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA5× · 2017–2024 · $269k · revenue +156%- NHNEW HORIZON SCHOOL PASADENA5× · 2018–2024 · $109k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- NHNuvance Healthone grant, 2021 · $90k
- JUJFK University Medical Center Foundationone grant, 2022 · $90k
- HFHashoo Foundation Islamaabadone 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.
Human Rights Project
None
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Islamic Scholarship Fund's mission is to support American Muslim storytelling & increase representation in fields & occupations that make public policy & influence public opinion by providing scholarships, internships, fellowships, film…
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…
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…
To spread islamic values to the globe through media
Zawiyah presents the living traditions, history, culture, metaphysics and practical sciences of sufism, as the essence and highest dimension of the religion of islam, through writings from leading scholars, intellectuals and spiritual…
Establish a pool of capital that ensures the long-term sustainability of irusa and enables the charity in achieving its objectives.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 82 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON SCHOOL WESTSIDE ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds AASRA INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON SCHOOL PASADENA ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE INITIATIVES NOW EMPOWERING HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTS IN LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIPPER USA ↗
- Who funds Southern California School Of Theology ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA ↗
- Who funds GRAND PERFORMANCES ↗
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: American Muslim Community Foundation · Saya Foundation · Zakia and Mian Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Tabbaa Foundation · Darul Sadaqa786 · The Malik Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Imami Family Foundation Inc · Nakadar Foundation · Haque Family Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Al-Ameen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Al-Ameen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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