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The Mirza Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.6MHuman Services$2.0MReligion$710kInternational$212kHealth$114kPhilanthropy$70kCrime & Legal$68kArts & Culture$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $311k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$600,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$300,000
ADAMS CENTER$250,000
CENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD$250,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$86,400
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$75,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
TUITION ASSISTANCE (6) STUTENDS TO DIFFERNT UNIVERSITIES$21,450
FAITH$15,000
SCGF - (SIFLP AND SSILLC- K1) CONTRIBUTION$11,893
PEARL FOUNDATION$10,500
FAITH$10,000
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$10,000
ADAMS CENTER$8,600
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFTED HIGHER MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 13%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 13%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 8%FAITH: $50k → 4%FAITH: $46k → 4%FAITH: $321k → 6%FAITH: $185k → 6%FAITH: $132k → 6%FAITH: $121k → 6%FAITH: $100k → 6%THE LAUREL CENTER: $1k → 16%FAITH: $18k → 6%FAITH: $15k → 6%FAITH: $15k → 6%FAITH: $10k → 6%FAITH: $5k → 6%FAITH: $2k → 6%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 57 repeat orgs$789k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
88

Total granted

$8.1M
$535k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+16%

Still filing today

47%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
EducationInternationalReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +39%
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +37%
  • FF
    Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MAQASID INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TA
    TUITION ASSISTANCE (4) STUTENDS TO DIFFERNT UNIVERSITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $29k
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
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
2
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
3
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
4
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
5
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

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…

International
6
Minaret of Freedom Institute

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…

Health
7
The Malala Fund

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…

Education
8
Ilm Atlanta

Provide an environment to produce muslims whose thoughts and actions are devoted to allah (swt). focus on teaching language arts, science, math and arabic. utilize the most effective teaching methods (teaching philosophy) and tools…

Religion
9
Islamic Relief Usa

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.

International
10
One Ummah Project

To unite the Ummah by empowering communities with impactful programs, shared purpose, and elevated leadership rooted in the Quran and Sunnah

—
11
Islamic Scholarship Fund

Islamic Scholarship Fund's mission is to support American Muslim storytelling & increase representation in fields & occupations that make public policy & influence public opinion by providing scholarships, internships, fellowships, film…

Education
12
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
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 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.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 166 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
46/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $2,770,317 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,482,144 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC+8 more: $174,500 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $547,178 · OtherIndividual grant recipientADAMS CENTER: $477,600 · OtherADAMS CENTERISNA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $116,900 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $86,400 · OtherTHE MAQSID INSTITUTE: $85,000 · Other+119 more: $982,017 · Other+119 moreFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $1,019,555 · Human ServicesFoundation fo…+5 more: $22,520 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: $765,776 · ReligionCENTER FOR…+6 more: $25,000 · ReligionPEARL FOUNDATION: $51,500 · InternationalEDU-GIRLS INC: $14,000 · InternationalOBAT HELPERS INC: $10,505 · InternationalB DESH FOUNDATION: $10,500 · InternationalLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $7,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC: $5,885 · InternationalSwat Relief Initiative: $5,000 · International+3 more: $4,400 · InternationalTHE MAQASID INSTITUTE: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUnus Family Foundation: $42,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyIQRA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$4,426,961Other$2,395,095Human Services$1,042,075Religion$790,776International$108,790Philanthropy$98,000Arts & Culture$51,000

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 budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $2,770,317 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,482,144 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $1,019,555 over 9y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: $765,776 over 6y, 26% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEARL FOUNDATION: $51,500 over 6y, 23% of budgetUnus Family Foundation: $42,500 over 5y, 89% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KARACHI ALUMNI A: $42,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetIQRA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $27,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Franklin Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDU-GIRLS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $12,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetOBAT HELPERS INC: $10,505 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetB DESH FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetADAMS ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRADIANT HANDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $7,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC: $5,885 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $5,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwat Relief Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCelebrateMercy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuslim Alliance in North America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetMUSLIM AID AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAMS Compassionate Healthcare Network: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Good Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISLAMIC SHURA COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $4,770 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain View Christian Academy: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEQUALLYABLE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC SOCIETY OF CENTRAL JERSEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEFUL FAMILIES PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 3.5% 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 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 PEARL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MAQASID INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Unus Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI ALUMNI A ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Sterling Charitable G…Barzinji Family Found…Islamic Relief USAM Omar Ashraf Family …American Muslim Commu…The Bank of Clarke Co…Altalib Family Founda…Fredrick D & Karen G …The Tabbaa FoundationAmerican Woodmark Fou…Saif and Lubna Founda…The Arif Foundation
Sterling Charitable Gift FundVA59.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 166 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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