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The Zakat Foundation of America
Zakat foundation of america fosters charitable giving to alleviate the immediate needs of destitute communities and to establish longterm development projects that ensure the individual and community growth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 85 grants below total $4,399,078 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,061,037 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,661,959 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZAKAT FOUNDATION INSTITUTE INC | $520,118 |
| AMANAH SECURITY GROUP | $490,530 |
| BONYS LLC (SUPERMERCADO MARTINS) | $397,345 |
| KHALIL FOUNDATION | $343,083 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $222,250 |
| AFGHAN CULTURAL CENTER INC | $182,510 |
| ROHINGYA CULTURAL CENTER | $162,750 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY | $150,000 |
| NATALY MORENO CID REIM | $115,090 |
| JUAN MONTIEL FALCON | $106,713 |
| SIXTO GABRIEL PEDROZA | $72,901 |
| THE SALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER | $69,048 |
| MASCHICAGO | $58,800 |
| GUIDER GROUP LLC | $57,375 |
| UPWARDLY GLOBAL | $56,250 |
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 (FY18–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $18M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $14M to organizations and $4.1M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
58 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- KFKhalil Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +106% · 38% of their budget
- RCROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $969k · revenue +93% · 32% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $744k · revenue +5%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -21%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $176k
- YRYemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundationgraduatedone 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.
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.
Human Rights Project
The mission of Masjidullah is to establish the Holy Qur'an as the guide book for all of humanity and the life of prophet Muhammad as the example for human conduct. Masjidullah carries out its mission through programs of community service…
Community Services, Prayer arrangemrnts, Teachings of Islam and distribution of zakat funds inbetween poor communities.
Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…
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…
To systematically facilitate assertive Muslim involvement in the field of human struggle for the rights of the poor and oppressed.
it is to unity the immigrates and give them access to education that will help them get settled and progress
MuslimARC is an human rights education organization. Our work consists of raising awareness and training Muslim communities on issues of racial justice. In order to uproot racism, we focus on developing and delivering education on…
Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.
Educate the chicago community in particular and the american community in general in arabic and islamic studies
Established to represent the american muslim community and to advocate for human rights, tolerance, and justice in the united state and the world, and to foster interfaith and interethnic understanding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Il Muslim Civic Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Foundation 221. 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 25 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 172 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 Khalil Foundation ↗
- Who funds Zakat Foundation Institute ↗
- Who funds ROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Center on Muslim Philanthropy ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds AFGHAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARDLY GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CENTER FOR MUSLIMS IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds US Council of Muslim Organizations ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CAIR-CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERIC DBA RISING STARS ISLAMIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY HOUSTON ↗
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: Islamic Relief USA · United Hands Relief Inc · American Muslim Community Foundation · Pure Hands Inc · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Islamic Food & Nutrition Council of America · United Mission For Relief & Development · Pious Projects of America · Mohammady Foundation · Bibi Foundation · Giveaseed Foundation
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 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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