How much did THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA grant in FY2023?

THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA reported 38 grants totaling $11,317,726 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA based?

THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is based in IL.

THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

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· Public charity

THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

The organization fosters charitable giving to alleviate the immediate needs of poor communities and to establish long-term development projects that ensure individual and community growth and quickly respond to emergencies and disasters anywhere in the world.

$11M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$443k

Largest

01What you fund

0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Public Benefit$2.6MArts & Culture$755kInternational$588kEducation$373kEmployment$159kReligion$134kSocial Science$108kHealth$102kCivil Rights$97kOther$2.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

relief foodramadanemergency relieffood securityemergencysecurityemergency relieficnacity's

2020

childrenprayersexpertearlypartnershipsadvocatingcritical

2021

islamic greaterprayersexpertcivic justiceissuesearlyconvention

2022

islamophobiaprivatecontributionsconnectsdatacivic justiceconvention

2023

studentsphysiciansexcellenceyoungrathsfuturestrong sense

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k10 grants · $72k
$10k–50k20 grants · $408k
$50k–250k6 grants · $581k
$250k+2 grants · $695k

$16,544

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants

CENTER ON MUSLIM PHILANTHROPY$443,072
KHALIL FOUNDATION$252,250
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$185,625
ROHINGYA CULTURAL CENTER$127,350
NEO PHILANTHROPY$100,000
INTERACTION$64,000
RATHS RATHS & JOHNSON INC$53,660
MAS CONVENTION GLA$50,000
BRUSH ARCHITECTS LLC$47,810
UPWARDLY GLOBAL$40,000
MAS CONVENTION CHICAGO$38,000
THE SALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER$28,500
MOSQUE FOUNDATION$25,000
THE PRAYER CENTER$25,000
TRAVELERS MEDIA LLC$21,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.3M · 38 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.3M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+86%

Still filing today

66%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionInternationalArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

KF
Khalil Foundation
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +214% · 38% of their budget
RC
Rohingya Culture Center
6× · 2018–2023 · $652k · revenue +270% · 32% of their budget
UB
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $353k · revenue +81%

Funded once

UNICEF USAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +27%
AO
All Others
one grant, 2018 · $176k
YR
Yemen Relief & Reconstructiongraduated
one grant, 2018 · $64k · revenue +98%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Center for Islam in the Contemporary

Religion

Icna Council for Social Justice

To systematically facilitate assertive Muslim involvement in the field of human struggle for the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Civil Rights

American Islamic College

Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies

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Council On American-Islamic Relations

CAIR WA is a civil rights and advocacy organization dedicated to enhancing the understanding of Islam, protecting civil rights, promoting justice, and empowering American Muslims. The main goal of our programs and services is to provide…

Human Services

Council On American-Islamic Relations of New York

Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.

Civil Rights

Council On American-Islamic Relations-Oh

Cair's mission is to enhance understanding of islam, protect civil rights, promote justice and empower american muslims.

Civil Rights

Masjidullah Incorporated

To establish the Holy Quran as the book of guidance for all humanity, and the life of Prophet Muhammad as the example for human conduct.

Religion

Darul-Uloom Islamic Center

Darul Uloom is a nonprofit Islamic center that has been formed exclusively for educational and religious purposes. The center plays vital role in the lives of Muslims in the East of Saint Paul, Minnesota. The center is a place where…

Education

American Muslim Center Inc

The amc is a muslim community center dedicated to promoting the values and teaching of islam and to advocating interfaith harmony in a multicultural environment in accordance with the quran and sunnah.

Religion

Muslim Community Network Inc

To foster mutual, collaboration, and communication within the diverse muslim community.

Civil Rights

Insight Chicago Inc

Insight Hospital and Medical Center Chicago is dedicated to transformation and impact. We will deliver world class, compassionate, expert care to every patient who comes through our doors. As stewards of holistic health, Insight is…

Health

Ummah Relief International

Provide relief to the needy and organize charitable programs

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council On American-Islamic Relations and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%4/101

the rest of the field

11%

7,681/72,258

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.

05the grantee network

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/59

Grantees still filing

47/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Benefit$2,648,750Other$3,047,239Arts & Culture$755,295International$588,044Education$372,750Employment$159,300Religion$133,590

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.

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.

United Hands Relief IncTX37.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Hands Relief Inc · Islamic Relief USA · American Muslim Community Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Pure Hands Inc · Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of America · United Mission For Relief & Development · Field Foundation of Illinois · Pious Projects of America · Council of Islamic Organizations of · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 organisation THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE SALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 21.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 851430192 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE SALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Zakat Foundation of America?

Find your warmest path to The Zakat Foundation of America through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Zakat Foundation of America?

More from the funding graph

THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Zakat Foundation of America?

More from the funding graph