· Private foundation
The Mirza Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $276k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $1,000,067 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| CENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD | $260,000 |
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| FAITH | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,650 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATON | $30,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FAITH | $17,600 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIMS IN SOCIAL WORK | $12,000 |
| PEACEFUL FAMILY PROJECT INC | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| ADAMS ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| RADIANT HANDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +39%- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
- FFFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary8× · 2017–2024 · $993k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAQASID INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TATUITION ASSISTANCE (4) STUTENDS TO DIFFERNT UNIVERSITIESone grant, 2023 · $29k
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.
Human Rights Project
We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…
Islamic relief usa provides relief and development in a dignified manner regardless of gender, race, or religion, and works to empower individuals in their communities and give them a voice in the world.
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…
Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…
To spread islamic values to the globe through media
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc and the most unlike its peers is Alalusi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 146 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 SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MAQASID INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PEARL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI ALUMNI A ↗
- Who funds Unus Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds IQRA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds World Community ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Franklin Academy ↗
- Who funds EDU-GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds B DESH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA ↗
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: 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
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 Mirza Family 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.
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
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.