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The Hafeez Foundation at a glance

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The Hafeez 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.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$43kReligion$10kInternational$8kHealth$4kCivil Rights$2kPhilanthropy$2kYouth Development$1kHousing & Shelter$750Other$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
9
States reached
$70k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZAYTUNA COLLEGE$5,000
ZAKAT$2,000
AMERICAN EDUCATION TRUST$500
ISLAMIC RELIEF USA$250
THE MUSLIM CENTER$250
HUDA CLINIC$250
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$150
MERCY-USA$150
ACLU$100
STJOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$100
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$100
CAIR$100
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$100
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$100
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50
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 11%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $500 → 14%IONA: $250 → 10%MERCY-USA: $360 → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250 → 17%ZAKAT: $2k → 14%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $2k → 9%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%BIG BOY HOCKEY CLUB: $1k → 10%MERCY-USA: $340 → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250 → 17%THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $836 → 9%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%MERCY-USA: $340 → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250 → 17%ZAKAT: $2k → 14%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $500 → 9%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%MERCY-USA: $320 → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250 → 17%ZAKAT: $2k → 14%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $500 → 9%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%MERCY-USA: $260 → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250 → 17%ZAKAT: $2k → 14%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $500 → 9%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%MERCY-USA: $250 → 21%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $298 → 9%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%MERCY-USA: $250 → 21%ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $250 → 9%ZAYTUNA COLLEGE: $5k → 10%HUDA CLINIC: $500 → 21%THE MUSLIM CENTER: $500 → 21%ACLU: $250 → 17%HUDA CLINIC: $250 → 21%ACLU: $250 → 17%THE MUSLIM CENTER: $250 → 21%ACLU: $250 → 17%THE MUSLIM CENTER: $250 → 21%WASHINGTON REPORT: $500 → 14%WASHINGTON REPORT: $500 → 14%AMERICAN EDUCATION TRUST: $500 → 14%AMERICAN EDUCATION TRUST: $500 → 14%AMERICAN EDUCATION TRUST: $500 → 14%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
SD
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 19 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$69k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+142%

Still filing today

58%
57%

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
InternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthReligionCivil RightsOther
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

  • ZC
    Zaytuna College Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +98%
  • IR
    ISLAMIC RELIEF USA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +2%
  • MF
    MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • TZ
    THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +162%
  • BB
    BIG BOY HOCKEY CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • I
    IONA
    one grant, 2018 · $250
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
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
2
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Rahma Worldwide Aid and Development

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.

International
5
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
6
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
8
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
9
International Rescue Committee Inc

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.

International
10
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc; the most unlike its peers is Health Unit on Davison Avenue. 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

16 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. 16 of the 27 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Zaytuna College Inc: $40,000 · ReligionZaytuna College IncZAKAT: $8,000 · OtherZAKATAMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $2,000 · OtherAMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUSTTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 · OtherTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERIC…MUSLIM CENTER: $2,000 · OtherMUSLIM CENTERACLU: $1,115 · OtherACLUBIG BOY HOCKEY CLUB: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $750 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL: $735 · Other+5 more: $1,125 · Other+5 moreISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $4,500 · InternationalISLAMIC RELI…MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $2,270 · InternationalMERCY-USA FO…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $600 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,550 · HealthCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $700 · Civil RightsFeeding America: $484 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $50 · Food & NutritionWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $130 · EnvironmentGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $50 · Environment
Religion$40,000Other$19,725International$7,770Health$3,550Civil Rights$700Food & Nutrition$534Environment$180

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZaytuna College Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $2,270 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $2,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $484 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $130 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $50 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 Zaytuna College Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Health Unit on Davison Avenue ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CAIR-FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hafeez Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hafeez Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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 27 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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