· Private foundation
The Farhan 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLINT ISLAMIC CENTER | $8,000 |
| PSSF | $5,000 |
| SAMS | $5,000 |
| MED GLOBAL | $5,000 |
| BAITULMAAL | $4,000 |
| PURE HAND | $3,750 |
| SAWASIA | $3,000 |
| UNION MEDICAL CARE | $3,000 |
| MICHIGAN ISLAMIC INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KHARTUM | $3,000 |
| NAAMA | $2,500 |
| SAPA | $2,000 |
| CAIR | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| NOOR UNITY CENTER | $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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- BIBAITULMAAL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue ×12
- MFMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +68%
- LFLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +342%
Funded once
- MAMuslim American Society Incone grant, 2023 · $5k
- JFJUSTICE FOR ALLone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -9%
- MIMIFTAAH INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
To provide material and financial assistance to relieve the sufferings of any and all persons affected by disasters. conflicts, disease. and hunger, irrespective of race. creed or ethnicity. To support schools and other learning centers…
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
We are a non-profit charity organization that humbly aims to provide to those in need around the world. With gratitude & love, we try to provide food, water, clothing, shelter, peace & education to needy persons, families and communities.
Human Rights Project
To provide support (food, medical and shelter) for victims and refugees escaping or trapped in the war zone in sudan and currently residing in egypt or sudan. most of these refugees are women and children. we will also support them…
Zahra foundation provides humartian aid to the destiute orphans of iraq and people suffering extreme circumstances around the world
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 57 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 BAITULMAAL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
- Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Muslim American Society Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SUDANESE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Muslim Community Services ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SFUSA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA ↗
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 Gayar Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Arif Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Al-Harastani Foundation · The Razzak Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · The Syed Foundation · Analog Devices 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 Farhan 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.