· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLINT ISLAMIC CENTER | $74,400 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S OUTREACH | $35,000 |
| SWASIA | $20,000 |
| MERCY WITHOUT LIMIT | $20,000 |
| CAIR | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SAMS | $10,000 |
| CONTINUOUS CHARITY EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| PALESTINIAN STUDENTS SCHOLARSHIP FU | $5,500 |
| SUDANESE AMERICAN PHYSICIANS ASSOC | $5,000 |
| GENESEE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM ALUMNI ASDOC | $5,000 |
| SYRIAM AMERICAN COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| BAITULMAAL | $5,000 |
| LIFE FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LFLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +22%
- CICAIR-FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +52%
- BIBAITULMAAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $21k
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +26%
- HHHELPING HANDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +148% · 40% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Human Rights Project
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
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.
SEE PART 1, LINE A MISSION AND PRINCIPLESAdvocating universal individual human rights without exceptions, Advocating literacy and education as the cornerstones to personal development and true humanity, Empowering and supporting…
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 support the betterment of our society through a balanced, moderate, and authentic islamic education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baitulmaal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Darul Wahi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CAIR-FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds BAITULMAAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CAIR Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds Darul Wahi ↗
- Who funds University of Khartoum Alumni Assoc ↗
- Who funds Sudanese American Physicians Assn ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FAJR SCIENTIFIC ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Indian American Muslim Council ↗
- Who funds SFUSA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Alnour Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.