· Private foundation
The Symn 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 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 $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT | $105,100 |
| ICA | $13,205 |
| MIFTAAH INSTITUTE | $10,230 |
| CAIR MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,140 |
| MED GLOBAL | $5,000 |
| SAMS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSLIM COMMUNITY MOSQUE | $195 |
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 (FY17–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
24 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +45%
- AFAMOUD FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +152%
- ICISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- RFRAHAMA FOR RELIEF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $7k
- PCPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +650%
- MIMEMPHIS ISLAMIC CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
Human Rights Project
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
Imana fosters health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy.
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…
To provide material and financial assistance to relieve the sufferings of any and all persons affected by disasters. conflicts, disease. and hunger, irrespective of race. creed or ethnicity. To support schools and other learning centers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc and the most unlike its peers is Helping Hands Inc. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 51 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 RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMOUD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAIR Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITY FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds IMAN JASIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds BAITULMAAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
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: American Muslim Community Foundation · Dr Nussri Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Syed Foundation · The Kashlan Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · The Straight Path Foundation · The Arif Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Kadry Foundation · The Bitar Foundatiuon
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 Symn 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.
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.