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.

The Alnour Foundation

The Alnour Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$232k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$74k

Largest

01What it funds

0179% 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

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $43k
$10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$50k–250k1 grant · $74k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$57k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
BAITULMAAL	$5,000
GENESEE ACADEMY	$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM ALUMNI ASDOC	$5,000
SYRIAM AMERICAN COUNCIL	$5,000
LIFE FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT	$3,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$1.0M · 18 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%

+26%

Still filing today

28%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

CI
CAIR-FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +52%
LF
LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +22%
BI
BAITULMAAL INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +127%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $21k
SA
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +26%
HH
HELPING HANDS INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +148% · 40% of their budget

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.

International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute

Education

American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture

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

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

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

Council for Democracy & Tolerance

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…

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Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma

Philanthropy

Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc

Religion

Minaret of Freedom Institute

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…

Health

Islamic University of Minnesota

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

Education

Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity

Philanthropy

Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baitulmaal Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/20

Grantees still filing

13/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,005,815International$79,100Youth Development$35,000Civil Rights$28,000Health$18,000Human Services$16,000Religion$15,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alnour Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alnour Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home