· Private foundation
The Turfah 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 $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SADR FOUNDATION | $95,000 |
| ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASS | $10,000 |
| TAHA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREAT REVELATION ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| MAYA SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UNITED HUMANATARAIN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +90% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GRGREAT REVELATIONS ACADEMY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $485k · revenue +90%
- SFSADR FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +126%
- ZIZAMAN INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TITAWHEED INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +22%
- PFPEOPLE FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AIAMERICAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -56%
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
The mission of the school is to ensure that Muslim students positively contribute to a global society by providing an education which maximizes the student's learning potential in a safe, stimulating, Islamic environment.
Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies
Education
The Islamic Academy of Riverside is a WASC-accredited privately funded K-8 program dedicated to providing quality education in a culturally respectful environment.
Provide religious education, space and mentorship.
To support the betterment of our society through a balanced, moderate, and authentic islamic education.
Education
Organize religious classes by scholars Via Zoom, teleconference, seminars Provide financial help on humanitarian ground Distribute printed books, materials posting YouTube lectures. To sustain our services , actualize our vision , our…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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: Allie & Wanda Fayz Family Foundation · Sadr Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Turfah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Turfah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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