· Private foundation
The Dana-Z 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MED GLOBAL | $25,000 |
| THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSLIM SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| SAC | $5,000 |
| PURE HANDS | $1,500 |
| ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| UMMA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MGMED GLOBAL2× · 2021–2024 · $30k
- IICA4× · 2017–2021 · $23k
- AMAMERICAN MOSLEM SOCIETY4× · 2021–2024 · $18k
Funded once
- SFSAMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $35k
- BFBAITULMAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- RWRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +75%
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.
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.
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.
To spread islamic values to the globe through media
Friday jumah salah, hifz school. weekend qural class, daily five time salah.
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
The mission of rahmat-e-alam is to enlighten humanity with the authentic knowledge of islam.
Religious School With Mosque
Mosque
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: The Tabbaa Foundation · The Bitar Foundatiuon · The Syed Foundation · Sattar Family Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dana-Z Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dana-Z Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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