· Private foundation
The Gayar 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 $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLINT ISLAMIC CTR | $20,435 |
| GRAND BLANC ISLAMIC CENTER | $15,450 |
| AFRICA RELIEF & COMMUNITY DEVELOP | $5,000 |
| LIFE FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| UOSSM USA | $5,000 |
| UNITED MICHIAGN MUDLIM ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BAITULMAAL MUSLIM CHARITY | $2,000 |
| ALSABEEL MASJID NOOR AL-ISLAM | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE FAMILY & YOUTH INSTITUTE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +22%
- BIBOSTON ISLAMIC SEMINARY INC3× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +49%
- MHMEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- ARAfrica Relief and Community Developmentgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +671%
- COCENTER OF ARAB AMERICAN PHILANTROPYone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MIMIFTAAH INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
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
To support the betterment of our society through a balanced, moderate, and authentic islamic education.
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
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.
Our mission is to our mission is to counter distortions and misconceptions about Islamic beliefs and practice to demonstrate the Islamic origins of modern values like the rule of law and sciences like market economics to advance the status…
The mission of Masjidullah is to establish the Holy Qur'an as the guide book for all of humanity and the life of prophet Muhammad as the example for human conduct. Masjidullah carries out its mission through programs of community service…
Free medical services for the poor needy and elderly.
To propagate the teachings of the holy quran and the sunnah of the holy and nobel prophet, prophet muhammad (peace & blessings be upon him) including, without limitation, to organize educational and prayer sessions for the teaching of the…
Imana fosters health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy.
To instill the proper Aqeedah in the hearts of Muslims of Alexandria and surrounding communities and to inclucate the understanding of the pure teachings of the Quraan and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (Salilaiahu
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 49 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.
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- Who funds HUMAN APPEAL ↗
- Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SUDANESE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MICHIGAN MUSLIM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ISLAMIC SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds UOSSM USA ↗
- Who funds American Muslim Community Services ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds BAITULMAAL 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.
Open a dossier: The Farhan Foundation · The Arif Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Razzak Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Al-Midani Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · The Judes Foundation · The Alkiek Foundation · Najjar Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gayar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gayar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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