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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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$188kInternational$181kReligion$158kEducation$25kCrime & Legal$20kPhilanthropy$12kHuman Services$9kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DROPLETS OF MERCY USA$1,000
THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER$1,000
IAGD$1,000
THE QURAN INSTITUTE$1,000
MUSLIMS FAMILY$200
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%HELPING HAND: $1k → 8%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

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
NV
IN
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
NC
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$526k · 20 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
50

Total granted

$526k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+133%
+5%

Still filing today

45%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthPhilanthropyReligionEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SA
    SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +26%
  • WF
    Women for Humanity
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +35%
  • PH
    PURE HANDS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WHITE HELMETS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • S
    SFUSA
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -18%
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
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
3
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
4
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
5
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
6
Islamic Medical Association of North America

Imana fosters health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
8
Sema Us Inc

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.

Health
9
The Noor Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Humanitarian African Relief Organization

To help africans in need. our main focus is getting food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the needy

International
11
Isaad foundation

Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand for Relief and Development Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 79 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $95,407 · OtherTHE MUSLIM UNITY CENTERIAGD: $30,360 · OtherIAGDIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRAHMA: $23,000 · OtherRAHMAWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,500 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYFOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $19,650 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR JUSTICEQURAN INSTITUTE: $13,000 · Other+46 more: $97,355 · Other+46 moreSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $129,262 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIE…MedGlobal Inc: $25,000 · HealthMedGlobal IncNATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $14,830 · HealthNATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICA…Health Unit on Davison Avenue: $7,078 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthWomen for Humanity: $72,019 · InternationalWomen for HumanityPURE HANDS INC: $32,000 · InternationalPURE HANDS INCMercy Without Limits: $19,000 · InternationalMercy Without LimitsTHE WHITE HELMETS INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE WHITE HELMETS INCINTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF: $5,000 · International+5 more: $6,750 · InternationalTAWHEED CENTER OF NOVI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $2,000 · Religion+1 more: $398 · ReligionSFUSA: $6,000 · EducationBEVERLY HILLS ACADEMY: $500 · EducationBANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA: $4,000 · PhilanthropyKARAM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAMOUD FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $1,110 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK FOR GOOD: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$324,272Health$176,670International$144,769Religion$12,398Education$6,500Philanthropy$6,000Human Services$2,110Public Safety & Disaster$500

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 budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $129,262 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetWomen for Humanity: $72,019 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Without Limits: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $14,830 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WHITE HELMETS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $7,078 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSFUSA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $1,110 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNUDAY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT RITA FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMOUD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 1.1% 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 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 THE WHITE HELMETS INC ↗
  • Who funds TAWHEED CENTER OF NOVI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 MULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗

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 FoundationBasha FoundationAmerican Muslim Commu…The Fountain of Knowl…Dr Nussri FoundationSayed FoundationThe Kashlan FoundationThe Al-Azem FoundationThe Straight Path Fou…The Alnour FoundationSattar Family Foundat…Nakadar Foundation
The Tabbaa FoundationMI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Honest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Honest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Honest Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Honest Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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