· Private foundation
The Noor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pure Hands for Mankind Inc | $30,000 |
| United Hands Relief | $20,000 |
| ISGH Masjib At Taqwa | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ISGH Masjib As Sabireen | $10,000 |
| The Righous Foundation | $7,500 |
| Texas Arabic Academy Inc | $5,000 |
| Houston Quran Academy Inc | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| Atef Abo Elinour Mohamed Ali | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $15k) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Noor Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ISISLAMIC SOCIETY OF GREATER HOUSTON5× · 2018–2023 · $202k
- EBELITE BAHAMIAN EDUCATION PROGRAM6× · 2018–2023 · $130k
- PHPURE HANDS INC3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $35k
- TMThe Muath Trustone grant, 2017 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $21k
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.
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.
Practice and education of Islam
Human Rights Project
To spread islamic values to the globe through media
Hidayah is formed to foster an understanding of the history, culture and religion of Islam. This program consists of education, lectures and phone sessions for the same. Various students receive education assistance for the advance…
Establishing and perfecting the recitation of the Holy Quran and promoting its memorization and understanding amount all members of our Muslim community, with special emphasis on childred and youth.
Provide a peaceful place of prayer for the local community and helping those in need with human essentials.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 99 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: Noor Munshi Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Noor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Noor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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