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The Straight Path Foundation at a glance

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The Straight Path 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.

$139k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$324kReligion$263kFood & Nutrition$91kPhilanthropy$63kHuman Services$49kHealth$48kEducation$31kCivil Rights$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
$6,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$685k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWASIA$39,000
SAMS$16,000
ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION$15,926
HUDA$15,000
MEDGLOBAL$15,000
PURE HANDS$8,600
ISLAMIC CENTER OF HAWTHORNE$8,000
MICHIGAN ISLAMIC INST$6,000
WOMEN FOR HUMANITY$4,550
ISLAMIC RELIEF$3,000
BASMAH$3,000
MERCY USA$2,000
UMMA$1,000
ZAKAT FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY19–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UMMA: $11k → 8%UMMA: $1k → 8%HELPING HANDS: $2k → 8%HELPING HANDS: $1k → 8%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

IL
MI
NY
NJ
CA
MD
KS
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$845k · 23 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +75% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
19

Total granted

$845k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+75%

Still filing today

43%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $88k · revenue +15%
  • IC
    ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +193%
  • ZC
    Zaytuna College Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • ZI
    ZAYTUNA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $21k
  • RW
    RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +75%
  • FC
    FASEELAH CHARITY
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -15%
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
Muslim Aid America

Provide help to people who are victims of natural disasters or conflicts or suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, or lack of skills or economic opportunity.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
3
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
4
Isaad foundation

Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.

Philanthropy
5
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
6
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Islamic Medical Association of North America

Imana fosters health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
10
Tvislaamaa

To spread islamic values to the globe through media

Arts & Culture
11
Us Help Inc

We are a non-profit charity organization that humbly aims to provide to those in need around the world. With gratitude & love, we try to provide food, water, clothing, shelter, peace & education to needy persons, families and communities.

Human Services
12
Zakah Aid and Charity Assisting Humanity

Zakat, aid and charity assisting humanity (zacah) is a minnesota-based grassroots organization dedicated to the collection and re-distribution of wealth, including zakat (mandatory charitable tax for all muslims) and sadaqah (any…

Religion
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 Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma. 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

19 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. 19 of the 43 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWASIA: $222,900 · OtherSWASIAISLAMIC CENTER OF HAWTHORNE INC: $61,000 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF HAWTHORNE INCSAMS MIDWEST FOUNDATION: $60,700 · OtherSAMS MIDWEST FOUNDATIONHUDA: $47,825 · OtherHUDAMUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $44,220 · OtherMUSLIM UNITY CENTERSAMS: $36,000 · OtherSAMSISLAMIC RELIEF: $35,350 · OtherISLAMIC RELIEFZAYTUNA INSTITUTE: $21,000 · Other+19 more: $63,550 · Other+19 moreSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $87,950 · InternationalSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDA…MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $29,500 · InternationalMERCY-USA FOR AID & D…PURE HANDS INC: $23,600 · InternationalPURE HANDS INCWomen for Humanity: $22,205 · InternationalWomen for Humanity+3 more: $9,100 · InternationalISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $53,216 · Arts & CultureZaytuna College Inc: $30,200 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $16,000 · ReligionOakland Islamic Community Center: $2,500 · ReligionMedGlobal Inc: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthUMMA: $12,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesBANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$592,545International$172,355Arts & Culture$53,216Religion$48,700Health$15,500Human Services$15,000Philanthropy$10,000

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 budgetSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $87,950 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $53,216 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetZaytuna College Inc: $30,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $29,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $23,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen for Humanity: $22,205 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMMA: $12,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA: $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFASEELAH CHARITY: $3,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHELPING HANDS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMIA ISLAMIA DARUL-ULOOM DETROIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUOSSM USA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
  • Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Women for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
  • Who funds UMMA ↗
  • Who funds BANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA ↗
  • Who funds RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds FASEELAH CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Islamic Community Center ↗
  • Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMIA ISLAMIA DARUL-ULOOM DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds UOSSM USA ↗
  • Who funds MULTIFAITH ALLIANCE 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.

The Tabbaa FoundationDr Nussri FoundationThe Kashlan FoundationThe Symn FoundationThe Syed FoundationThe Bitar FoundatiuonThe Honest FoundationSattar Family Foundat…Amin & Rubina Chikhal…Dearborn Community Ce…The Kadry FoundationBasha Foundation
The Tabbaa FoundationMI24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tabbaa Foundation · Dr Nussri Foundation · The Kashlan Foundation · The Symn Foundation · The Syed Foundation · The Bitar Foundatiuon · The Honest Foundation · Sattar Family Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · The Kadry Foundation · Basha 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 Straight Path Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Straight Path Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%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, FY20–25
    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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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