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The Razzak Foundation at a glance

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The Razzak 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.

$172k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$208kHealth$159kInternational$132kFood & Nutrition$101kCivil Rights$37kEducation$35kHuman Services$27kArts & Culture$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$912k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MERCY WITHOUT LIMITS$25,000
SCHOLARS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
FLINT ISLAMIC CENTER$10,000
A CONTINUOUS CHARITY$2,000
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 (FY18–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVLPMT: $10k → 8%HELPING HAND: $1k → 8%AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 16%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
NJ
CT
CA
MD
KS
DC
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$592k · 21 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
29

Total granted

$592k
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+22%

Still filing today

33%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
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
    6× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +26%
  • MW
    Mercy Without Limits
    3× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +88%
  • HH
    HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $11k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -67%
  • S
    SWASIA
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • YI
    YAQEEN INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC RESEAR
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
American Imam Academy

Education

Religion
2
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
3
Chicago Muslim Medical Alliance

Free medical services for the poor needy and elderly.

Education
4
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
5
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
6
Muslim Wellness Foundation

Muslim Wellness Foundation MWF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healing and emotional well being in the American Muslim Community through dialogue, education, and training

Civil Rights
7
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
8
Muslim Welfare Association

Carry out charitable initiatives that provide essential support and basic necessities to those in need.

Philanthropy
9
Barkaat-Ul-Quran Center

Islamic Education and religious center

Religion
10
Islamic Society of San Francisco

Religious-mosque/masjid

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11
Indo-Chinese Islamic Center

The mission of this organization is to worship god, teach islamic religion to muslim communities and other interested individuals, and provide a place for devoted muslims to practice their religion

Religion
12
American Muslim Women Physicians Association

To improve the condition of women's health, provide a platform for muslim women in medicine and to raise the awareness of community welfare

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muslim Public Affairs Council; the most unlike its peers is American Learning Institute for Muslims. 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

18 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. 18 of the 52 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLINT ISLAMIC CENTER - ISNA: $124,500 · OtherFLINT ISLAMIC CENTER - ISNAIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICANS FOR A FREE SYRIA: $25,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR A FREE SYRIAFLINT ISLAMIC CENTER: $22,000 · OtherFLINT ISLAMIC CENTERSWASIA: $20,000 · OtherSYRIAN AMERICAN ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherYAQEEN INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC RESEAR: $15,000 · OtherDAR-AL-ARQUAM SCHOOL: $13,500 · Other+30 more: $143,100 · Other+30 moreSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,050 · InternationalSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION …Mercy Without Limits: $60,000 · InternationalMercy Without LimitsINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC: $21,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZ…LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · InternationalSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $149,000 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDI…RABATA INC: $8,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $7,000 · ReligionMUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · ReligionMUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $5,000 · ReligionTARBIYAH ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationA CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $7,500 · EducationHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Muslim Community Services: $1,000 · Human ServicesICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $6,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$403,100International$191,550Health$149,000Religion$25,000Education$17,500Human Services$12,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $149,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,050 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMercy Without Limits: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC: $21,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARBIYAH ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRABATA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA CONTINUOUS CHARITY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Learning Institute for Muslims: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds TARBIYAH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds RABATA INC ↗
  • Who funds A CONTINUOUS CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗

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 Arif FoundationThe Alnour FoundationThe Tabbaa FoundationNajjar Family Foundat…The Al-Midani Foundat…American Muslim Commu…The Farhan FoundationThe Gayar FoundationNoor Munshi FoundationThe Fountain of Knowl…Dearborn Community Ce…Texas Instruments Fou…
The Arif FoundationMI34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Arif Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · Najjar Family Foundation · The Al-Midani Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Farhan Foundation · The Gayar Foundation · Noor Munshi Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · Texas Instruments 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 Razzak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Razzak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 Razzak Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Razzak 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 52 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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