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The Al-Midani 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.

$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$471kFood & Nutrition$395kHealth$170kEducation$168kInternational$164kHuman Services$41kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $148k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$593k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION$82,500
MERCY WITHOUT LIMITS$65,000
SUDAN RELIEF FUND$30,000
MEDGLOBAL$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$18,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PSSF$10,000
FLINT ISLAMIC CENTER$10,000
THE SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY$7,500
INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC ACADEMY$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BAITULMAAL$3,000
CAIR$2,000
NOOR UNITY CENTER$2,000
HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
NV
OH
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
OK
AL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 22 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$1.4M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

36%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionEducationHealthHuman 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

  • SC
    SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +15%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +139%
  • MW
    Mercy Without Limits
    3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • IS
    ISLAMIC SCHOOL OF GREATER LANSING
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • HR
    HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
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
Islamic Ummah Relief Corp

Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans

Human Services
3
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
4
Islamic University of Minnesota

To support the betterment of our society through a balanced, moderate, and authentic islamic education.

Education
5
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
6
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
7
Darulquran Foundation

Islamic education and worship

Religion
8
Darul-Uloom Islamic Center

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
9
Chicago Muslim Medical Alliance

Free medical services for the poor needy and elderly.

Education
10
Humanitarian African Relief Organization

To help africans in need. our main focus is getting food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the needy

International
11
Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization

Providing health and walfare assistance to orphaned children and students primarily in the middle-east and other impoverished and war-stricken regions of the world.

Human Services
12
Muslim Aid America

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life for Relief and Development Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

13 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. 13 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLINT ISLAMIC CENTER: $227,500 · OtherFLINT ISLAMIC CENTERUniversity of Michigan: $149,712 · OtherUniversity of MichiganGENESEE ACADEMY: $82,349 · OtherGENESEE ACADEMYMISHKAH: $75,000 · OtherMISHKAHIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGBIC: $45,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,200 · Other+29 more: $275,897 · Other+29 moreSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $394,500 · InternationalSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPR…Mercy Without Limits: $90,000 · InternationalMercy Without LimitsSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $30,000 · InternationalSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC+2 more: $19,000 · InternationalFURQAN INSTITUTE: $100,100 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $25,001 · ReligionMedGlobal Inc: $25,000 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 · HealthHUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION CORP: $11,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $3,322 · EducationDar Al-Akram Islamic School: $1,900 · Education
Other$943,158International$533,500Religion$125,101Health$42,500Human Services$11,000Education$5,222

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 budgetSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $394,500 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $149,712 over 5y, 15% of budgetFURQAN INSTITUTE: $100,100 over 5y, 59% of budgetMercy Without Limits: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $25,001 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION CORP: $11,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $3,322 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDar Al-Akram Islamic School: $1,900 over 2y, 1.8% 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.

  • Who funds SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds FURQAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
  • Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
  • Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION CORP ↗

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 Razzak FoundationMI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Razzak Foundation · The Arif Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · The Gayar Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Alkiek Foundation · Najjar Family Foundation · The Farhan Foundation · Hannan Foundation · The Judes Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Dearborn Community Center

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 The Al-Midani Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Al-Midani Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Al-Midani Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Al-Midani Foundation 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 48 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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