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The Arif 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.

$494k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MReligion$659kInternational$652kEducation$268kPhilanthropy$61kCivil Rights$40kHuman Services$19kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$6,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$281k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMI$250,000
INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES$80,000
FLINT ISLAMIC CENTER$18,200
ISLAMIC CENTER OF NAPERVILLE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
ICNA RELIEF USA$12,000
SWAISIA CHARITY FOUNDATION$11,000
MEDGLOBAL$10,000
SUDANESE AMERICAN PHYSICIANS ASSOCI$10,000
PROCLAIM TRUTH CHARITABLE TRUST$10,000
NOOR UNITY CENTER$9,300
MIFTAAH INSTITUTE$7,520
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIO$6,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM ALUMNI$5,000
CHICAGO MUSLIM MEDICAL ALLIANCE$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $495k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $404k → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOP: $5k → 8%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $80k → 8%AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 16%AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 16%AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250 → 16%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
KS
DC
AL
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 39 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
57

Total granted

$2.8M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+5%

Still filing today

44%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k 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
InternationalReligionHealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $34k · revenue +113%
  • SA
    SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +6%
  • DW
    Darul Wahi
    2× · 2021–2022 · $21k · revenue +326%

Funded once

  • I
    ICNA
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH PEACE CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +117%
  • TC
    THE CENTER OF ISLAMIC TEACHINGS
    one 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.

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
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
2
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
3
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
4
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
5
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
6
Islamic Medical Association of North America

Imana fosters health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Zakah Aid and Charity Assisting Humanity

Zakat, aid and charity assisting humanity (zacah) is a minnesota-based grassroots organization dedicated to the collection and re-distribution of wealth, including zakat (mandatory charitable tax for all muslims) and sadaqah (any…

Religion
8
American Muslim Health Professionals

We are a non-profit organization bringing together and strengthening the impact of Muslim health professionals to improve the health and wellness of all Americans.

Health
9
Memphis Muslim Medical Services Inc

To provide comprehensive healthcare, educational and social services to individuals and families, including medicallly underserved populations, without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, health…

Health
10
American Muslim Women Physicians Association

To improve the condition of women's health, provide a platform for muslim women in medicine and to raise the awareness of community welfare

Health
11
Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma
Philanthropy
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc; 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

40 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. 40 of the 103 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMRC: $1,384,000 · OtherIMRCSUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMI: $250,000 · OtherSUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIISLAMIC CENTER OF FLINT: $222,438 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF FLINT+67 more: $644,855 · Other+67 moreIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $484,000 · Human ServicesIndian Muslim Rel…+3 more: $13,250 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC: $17,260 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $15,000 · InternationalSudanese American Physicians Assn: $11,000 · InternationalCAIR Michigan Inc: $10,000 · InternationalPURE HANDS INC: $8,400 · InternationalLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $8,000 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INC: $7,000 · InternationalTHE FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 · InternationalCAPI USA: $4,000 · International+5 more: $6,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $27,000 · ReligionDarul Wahi: $21,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH PEACE CORP: $10,500 · ReligionICNA Chicago Illinois Organization: $10,000 · ReligionGuidance Center NFP: $5,000 · Religion+2 more: $2,053 · ReligionSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $32,500 · HealthMedGlobal Inc: $15,000 · HealthSUDANESE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $1,250 · HealthICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $34,200 · Public Safety & DisasterMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $5,000 · Civil RightsHURLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,501,293Human Services$497,250International$92,160Religion$75,553Health$53,750Public Safety & Disaster$34,200Civil Rights$10,000

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 budgetIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $484,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $34,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $32,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $27,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC: $17,260 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSudanese American Physicians Assn: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH PEACE CORP: $10,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCAIR Michigan Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetICNA Chicago Illinois Organization: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $8,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Muslim Community Services: $6,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO MUSLIM MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUDANESE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGuidance Center NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPI USA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Without Limits: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM OUTREACH FREE CLINIC: $3,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetEQUALLYABLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOBAT HELPERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Indian Muslim Relief and Charities ↗
  • Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Darul Wahi ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds Sudanese American Physicians Assn ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH PEACE CORP ↗
  • Who funds CAIR Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds ICNA Chicago Illinois Organization ↗
  • Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗

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.

American Muslim Commu…The Alnour FoundationThe Razzak FoundationThe Tabbaa FoundationThe Farhan FoundationThe Gayar FoundationNajjar Family Foundat…Nakadar FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Al-Midani Foundat…The Al-Harastani Foun…Amin & Rubina Chikhal…
American Muslim Community FoundationCA38.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Muslim Community Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · The Razzak Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Farhan Foundation · The Gayar Foundation · Najjar Family Foundation · Nakadar Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Al-Midani Foundation · The Al-Harastani Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia 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 Arif Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arif Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.

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 103 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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