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The Eman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Eman Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Eman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $272k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| HUMAN APPEAL | $54,000 |
| MUSLIM SOCIETY OF DELAWARE VALLEY | $35,000 |
| BAYAAN ACADEMY INC | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNITED HANDS FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF CHESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| PHILASTINE RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| ZUBAIDA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA | $7,000 |
| MED GLOBAL | $5,000 |
| CAIR PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| SAMS | $2,000 |
| ISABET ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +73% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
- BABAYAAN ACADEMY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +34%
- HAHUMAN APPEAL2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue +226%
- TMThe Muslim Society Of Delaware Valley3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- SSFUSAone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -18%
- GAGHIRAS ALNAHDA US NFPone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -51%
- BBAYANgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +42%
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.
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
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
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…
We offer a solution-oriented educational experience that accelerates the success of the social good sectors through empowering local charitable-work leaders with specialized knowledge and professional skills and integrating them into the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand for Relief and Development Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zubaida Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 32 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYAAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN APPEAL ↗
- Who funds The Muslim Society Of Delaware Valley ↗
- Who funds SFUSA ↗
- Who funds A CONTINUOUS CHARITY ↗
- Who funds GHIRAS ALNAHDA US NFP ↗
- Who funds BAYAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILASTINE RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ZUBAIDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC ACADEMY OF BURLINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CAIR-PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Khair Inc ↗
- Who funds NORRISTOWN ISLAMIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds TELHA FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Muslim Community Foundation · Sidra Foundation · Noor Munshi Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Eman 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.
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