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The Tabbaa Foundation at a glance

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The Tabbaa 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.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$36k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$550kInternational$350kHealth$117kEducation$95kPhilanthropy$50kHuman Services$33kFood & Nutrition$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE QUARAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$35,500
UMMAH RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$10,500
UNITY ISLAMIC CENTER$10,000
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FUND$10,000
MERCY USA$6,250
SWASIA CHARITY$5,590
AMERICAN MOSLEM SOCIETY$5,500
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY$5,000
WOMAN FOR HUMANITY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
AMOUD FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID$750
ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$500
THE ISLAMIC SEMINARY OF AMERICA$500
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, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $500 → 8%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $500 → 8%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF & CHARITIES: $200 → 8%MUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $1k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $500 → 21%ZAKAT CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $200 → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $125 → 21%MUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOP: $6k → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOP: $5k → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOP: $500 → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOP: $100 → 8%HELPING HANDS: $500 → 21%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
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$837k · 54 repeat orgs$478k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
64

Total granted

$837k
$460k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+16%

Still filing today

59%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther
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
    4× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue +251%
  • TQ
    THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
    5× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +125%
  • MF
    MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $64k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY MUSLIM CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • SA
    SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FND
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • MI
    MIFTAAH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma
Philanthropy
3
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
4
Al Ansaar Foundation for Humanity
Philanthropy
5
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
6
Muslim Response Usa for Relief and Development

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…

International
7
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
8
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
9
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
10
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
11
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
12
Isaad foundation

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

Philanthropy
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 Nakadar 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

57 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. 57 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
45/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY MUSLIM CENTER: $250,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY MUSLIM CENTERMISHKAH UNIVERSITY: $57,000 · OtherMISHKAH UNIVERSITYTHE MUSLIM UNITY CENTER: $35,400 · OtherSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FND: $35,000 · OtherTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $28,460 · OtherMIFTAAH INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Other+73 more: $239,156 · Other+73 moreMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $64,440 · InternationalMERCY-USA FOR AID & …LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $45,440 · InternationalLIFE FOR RELIEF AND …SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $31,000 · InternationalSWASIA CHARITY FOUND…UMMAH RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $20,305 · InternationalUMMAH RELIEF INTERNA…RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $15,500 · InternationalRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID …Women for Humanity: $13,000 · InternationalWomen for HumanityMercy Without Limits: $10,500 · InternationalHuman Development Fund: $10,000 · International+10 more: $28,705 · International+10 moreSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $106,000 · HealthSYRIAN AMER…MedGlobal Inc: $25,700 · HealthMedGlobal I…+2 more: $789 · HealthINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $80,500 · ReligionINTERNATIO…Zaytuna College Inc: $22,500 · ReligionZaytuna Co…UNITY ISLAMIC CENTER: $10,000 · ReligionUNITY ISLA…+3 more: $4,040 · ReligionTHE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $77,500 · EducationTHE QURAN…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: $7,500 · EducationAMERICAN …SFUSA: $6,800 · EducationSFUSATHE ISLAMIC SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $6,300 · EducationTHE ISLAM…HUDA SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationQALAM EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 · Education+4 more: $3,500 · EducationHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesCouncil of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago: $10,000 · Human ServicesMUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $1,825 · Human ServicesIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $1,200 · Human Services+2 more: $637 · Human ServicesICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $13,500 · Public Safety & DisasterMUSLIM AID AMERICA: $2,120 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$670,016International$238,890Health$132,489Religion$117,040Education$111,600Human Services$30,662Public Safety & Disaster$15,620

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 budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $106,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $80,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $77,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $64,440 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $45,440 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $31,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $28,460 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $25,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZaytuna College Inc: $22,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUMMAH RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $20,305 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWomen for Humanity: $13,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Without Limits: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCouncil of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHuman Development Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSFUSA: $6,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $6,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISLAMIC SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $6,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDA SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQALAM EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCAIR Michigan Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHIDAYA FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPURE HANDS INC: $4,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE USA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMOUD FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM AID AMERICA: $2,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MICHIGAN MUSLIM ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $1,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS ACADEMY: $1,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Hands Relief Inc: $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAL-FURQAAN FOUNDATION: $1,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOBAT HELPERS INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAMIA ISLAMIA DARUL-ULOOM DETROIT: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $589 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SURGICAL ASSOCIATION: $539 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAIR-CHICAGO: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ISLAMIC SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.8% 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 INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE QURAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds SWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
  • Who funds Zaytuna College Inc ↗
  • Who funds UMMAH RELIEF INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds RAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Women for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
  • Who funds Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNITY ISLAMIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Human Development Fund ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ↗
  • Who funds SFUSA ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds THE ISLAMIC SEMINARY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIM FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

American Muslim Commu…The Syed FoundationNakadar FoundationThe Fountain of Knowl…Sattar Family Foundat…The Arif FoundationDearborn Community Ce…Tabani Family Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…The Farhan FoundationSahara FoundationAmin & Rubina Chikhal…
American Muslim Community FoundationCA54.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Muslim Community Foundation · The Syed Foundation · Nakadar Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Sattar Family Foundation · The Arif Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · Tabani Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Farhan Foundation · Sahara Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia 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 Tabbaa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tabbaa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 126 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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