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The Honest 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY | $35,062 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MERCY WITHOUT LIMITS | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,250 |
| WOMEN FOR HUMANITY | $6,100 |
| ACS FUND | $6,000 |
| UMMA | $5,000 |
| MED GLOBAL | $5,000 |
| SRD | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICH MSA | $1,050 |
| THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| DROPLETS OF MERCY USA | $1,000 |
| IAGD | $1,000 |
| THE QURAN INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| MUSLIMS FAMILY | $200 |
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 (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +133% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +26%
- WFWomen for Humanity9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +35%
- PHPURE HANDS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TWTHE WHITE HELMETS INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SSFUSAone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -18%
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.
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.
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
Imana fosters health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy.
Human Rights Project
We provides medical assistance in disaster-affected and underserved areas, supports refugees, supplies experts for relief efforts, promotes medical education, and collaborates with similar NGOs globally.
To help africans in need. our main focus is getting food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the needy
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
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 Bloomfield 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 12 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 79 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 SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Women for Humanity ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAWHEED CENTER OF NOVI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE HELMETS INC ↗
- Who funds Health Unit on Davison Avenue ↗
- Who funds SFUSA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds BANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds MULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC ↗
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 Tabbaa Foundation · Basha Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Dr Nussri Foundation · Sayed Foundation · The Kashlan Foundation · The Al-Azem Foundation · The Straight Path Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · Sattar Family Foundation · Nakadar 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 Honest 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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