Virginia · Private foundation
The Mirza Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Mirza Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $1.9M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $2.1M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $764k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.3M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $996k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $719k | 51% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $233k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $376k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah University | $2,770,317 | 9 | 1% |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $1,482,144 | 8 | 0% |
| Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary | $1,019,555 | 9 | 14% |
| Center for Islam in the Contemporary World | $765,776 | 6 | 26% |
| Isna Development Foundation Inc | $116,900 | 6 | n/a |
| Indiana University Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pearl Foundation | $51,500 | 6 | 23% |
| The Maqasid Institute | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unus Family Foundation | $42,500 | 5 | 89% |
| University of Karachi Alumni A | $42,500 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mirza Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund · Barzinji Family Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · M Omar Ashraf Family Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Altalib Family Foundation - Aff · Fredrick D & Karen G Schaufeld Family Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Saif and Lubna Foundation · The Arif Foundation
How this is measured
About The Mirza Family Foundation
- How much does The Mirza Family Foundation give?
- The Mirza Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $1,906,893 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Mirza Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Human Services (28%), Religion (10%).
- Who are The Mirza Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shenandoah University ($2.8M), George Mason University Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary ($1.0M).
- Does The Mirza Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mirza Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mirza Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sterling Charitable Gift Fund, Barzinji Family Foundation, Islamic Relief USA.
- Where is The Mirza Family Foundation based?
- The Mirza Family Foundation is based in VA.
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