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The Alnour 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.

$232k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$74,400
Organizations funded a year
4 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$57k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations The Alnour Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEducationCivil RightsScience & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$232k45%
FY202317$199k35%
FY202213$186k38%
FY202114$121k71%
FY20207$161k14%
FY20197$96k71%
FY20184$162k50%
FY20178$40kn/a
79% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$616kInternational$138kHuman Services$73kCivil Rights$42kHealth$27kEducation$22kFood & Nutrition$16kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
MA
NJ
KS
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Flint Islamic Center$508,1158n/a
Islamic Center of Detroit Inc$61,0002n/a
International Children's Outreach Inc$35,0001100%
Cair-Foundation Inc$28,00040%
Life for Relief and Development Inc$28,00030%
Mercy Without Limits$20,0001n/a
Syrian American Medical Society$18,00015%
Helping Hands Inc$15,000140%
Baitulmaal Inc$13,00040%
International Islamic Health and Development of North America$10,0002n/a
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All grantees of The Alnour Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Flint Islamic Center$508,1158n/a
Islamic Center of Detroit Inc$61,0002n/a
International Children's Outreach Inc$35,0001100%
Cair-Foundation Inc$28,00040%
Life for Relief and Development Inc$28,00030%
Mercy Without Limits$20,0001n/a
Syrian American Medical Society$18,00015%
Helping Hands Inc$15,000140%
Baitulmaal Inc$13,00040%
International Islamic Health and Development of North America$10,0002n/a
CAIR Michigan Inc$6,00011%
Noor Unity Center$5,5004n/a
Darul Wahi$5,0001n/a
University of Khartoum Alumni Assoc$5,00013%
The Foundation for Justice and Development$5,00012%
The Helping Hands$5,0001n/a
Sudanese American Physicians Assn$5,00010%
Fajr Scientific$3,00010%
Grand Blanc Islamic Center$3,0002n/a
Pure Hands Inc$2,10030%
Indian American Muslim Council$2,00010%
Sfusa$2,00010%
American Muslim Community Services$1,00011%
Malik Academy Inc$1,00010%
University of Michigan$60020%
The Muslim House Inc$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($409k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Alnour Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Children's Outreach Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCair-Foundation Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLife for Relief and Development Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSyrian American Medical Society: $18,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHelping Hands Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetBaitulmaal Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAIR Michigan Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Khartoum Alumni Assoc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Foundation for Justice and Development: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSudanese American Physicians Assn: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFajr Scientific: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPure Hands Inc: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndian American Muslim Council: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSfusa: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Muslim Community Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMalik Academy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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 Arif FoundationMI34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Arif Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Farhan Foundation · The Razzak Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Gayar Foundation · Najjar Family Foundation · The Al-Midani Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Al-Harastani Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation

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.

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About The Alnour Foundation

How much does The Alnour Foundation give?
The Alnour Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $232,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Alnour Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (51%), International (12%), Human Services (6%).
Who are The Alnour Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Flint Islamic Center ($508k), Islamic Center of Detroit Inc ($61k), International Children's Outreach Inc ($35k).
Does The Alnour Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Alnour Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Alnour Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Arif Foundation, The Tabbaa Foundation, The Farhan Foundation.
Where is The Alnour Foundation based?
The Alnour Foundation is based in MI.

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 46 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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