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The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation at a glance

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The Fountain of Knowledg 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$187kPhilanthropy$103kEducation$55kInternational$48kHealth$18kCivil Rights$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$966k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUDA SCHOOL$20,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $2k → 10%ASSEMBLY OF MUSLIM JURISTS OF AMERI: $3k → 12%PURE HANDS FOR MANKIND: $3k → 5%QALAM: $10k → 8%MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%GUIDANCE COLLEGE: $10k → 16%HUDA SCHOOL: $20k → 8%ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERI: $2k → 10%MICHIGAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY: $5k → 14%MASJID FATIMAH: $3k → 21%MERCY WITHOUT LIMIT: $3k → 5%ISLAMIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER ST: $4k → 11%ISLAMIC CENTER OF CAPE GIRADEAU: $3k → 14%ISLAMIC RELIEF: $4k → 9%PURE HANDS FOR MANKIND: $3k → 5%HUDA SCHOOL: $20k → 8%ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERI: $2k → 10%MICHIGAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY: $5k → 14%IDEAL ISLAMIC CENTER: $2k → 21%ALSALAM DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 11%ALALUSI FOUNDATION: $90k → 10%RAHMA FOUNDATIION: $6k → 8%IMANA: $5k → 7%ALALUSI FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DETR: $2k → 8%IMANA: $3k → 7%ADAM COMMUNITY CTR-JAMIAH MASJID: $5k → 8%LIFE FOR RELIEF & DEVELOP: $5k → 8%CAIR: $5k → 8%LIFE FOR RELIEF & DEVELOP: $4k → 8%MERCY: $4k → 21%UNITY CENTER: $17k → 8%MERCY: $3k → 21%UNITY CENTER: $13k → 8%MASJID ALNOOR MELVINDALE: $10k → 21%MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $50k → 8%WOMEN FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 8%SHAJARA TAYYIBA: $3k → 21%THE HUDA CLINIC: $3k → 21%THE HUDA CLINIC: $3k → 21%ISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT: $5k → 21%ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%AMERICAN IRAQI COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $7k → 21%AMERICAN IRAQI COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%AMERICAN IRAQI COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 21%AMERICAN IRAQI COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 21%DAR AL SALAM ISLAMIC CENTER: $4k → 21%DAR AL SALAM ISLAMIC CENTER: $3k → 21%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

IL
MI
NY
NV
OH
CT
CA
MO
VA
KS
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$389k · 43 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
41

Total granted

$389k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+41%

Still filing today

49%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalReligionPhilanthropyEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • AF
    ALALUSI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $101k · revenue +54%
  • HS
    HUDA SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +27%
  • LF
    LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +342%

Funded once

  • Q
    QALAM
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • GC
    GUIDANCE COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $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
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
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
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
4
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
5
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
6
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
7
Dallas Islamic Foundation
Religion
8
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
9
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
10
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
11
Al-Zaharah Islamic Education Center
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12
Cambodian Islamic Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baitulmaal Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alalusi Foundation. 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

38 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. 38 of the 84 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/38
Grantees still filing
31/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $52,710 · OtherMUSLIM UNITY CENTERUNITY CENTER: $30,370 · OtherUNITY CENTERAMERICAN IRAQI COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $18,100 · OtherAMERICAN IRAQI COUNCIL OF MICHIGANMICHIGAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY: $10,500 · OtherQALAM: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INC: $9,250 · OtherMEDICLINIC AIRPORT ROAD HOSPITAL: $8,964 · Other+43 more: $91,805 · Other+43 moreALALUSI FOUNDATION: $100,500 · PhilanthropyALALUSI FOUNDATIONAMOUD FOUNDATION: $8,800 · PhilanthropyAMOUD FOUNDATION+2 more: $2,150 · PhilanthropyHUDA SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationHUDA SCHOOLGUIDANCE COLLEGE INC: $10,000 · EducationGUIDANCE COL…THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $2,500 · EducationAL MANARA ACADEMY: $2,000 · EducationLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $8,890 · InternationalPURE HANDS INC: $6,150 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $4,618 · InternationalWomen for Humanity: $4,240 · InternationalMercy Without Limits: $3,000 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INC: $2,500 · InternationalKIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA: $2,000 · International+4 more: $3,540 · InternationalDAR ALSALAM ISLAMIC CENTER: $7,000 · ReligionISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DETROIT: $4,000 · ReligionISLAMIC ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $4,000 · ReligionCOUNCIL OF ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION: $3,500 · ReligionZaytuna College Inc: $2,500 · ReligionAMERICAN MUSLIM DIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · ReligionDARULQURAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Religion+2 more: $1,000 · ReligionISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUnited Mission For Relief & Development: $2,780 · Public Safety & DisasterICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $1,500 · Public Safety & DisasterHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $5,500 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $2,420 · Health
Other$241,699Philanthropy$111,450Education$54,500International$34,938Religion$24,000Public Safety & Disaster$12,280Health$7,920

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 budgetALALUSI FOUNDATION: $100,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHUDA SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGUIDANCE COLLEGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $8,890 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMOUD FOUNDATION: $8,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAR ALSALAM ISLAMIC CENTER: $7,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $6,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $4,618 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL OF ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION: $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMercy Without Limits: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Mission For Relief & Development: $2,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $2,585 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZaytuna College Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $2,420 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAL MANARA ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN MUSLIM DIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDARULQURAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Charity Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIMAN JASIM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTMO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHIDAYA FOUNDATION: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNY APPEAL USA INC: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSachse Muslim Society: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN: $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 ALALUSI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUDA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GUIDANCE COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMOUD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds DAR ALSALAM ISLAMIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Health Unit on Davison Avenue ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds Women for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
  • Who funds United Mission For Relief & Development ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BAITULMAAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗

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 Tabbaa FoundationAmerican Muslim Commu…The Abu Akeel Foundat…The Syed FoundationThe Bitar FoundatiuonDr Nussri FoundationThe Kashlan FoundationSattar Family Foundat…Nakadar FoundationNoor Munshi FoundationThe Kadry FoundationThe Symn Foundation
The Tabbaa FoundationMI41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tabbaa Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Abu Akeel Foundation · The Syed Foundation · The Bitar Foundatiuon · Dr Nussri Foundation · The Kashlan Foundation · Sattar Family Foundation · Nakadar Foundation · Noor Munshi Foundation · The Kadry Foundation · The Symn 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 Fountain of Knowledg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 84 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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