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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.

$24M
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$520k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$3.1MEducation$3.1MInternational$1.8MArts & Culture$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MReligion$1.1MCivil Rights$438kCommunity Improvement$379kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 85 grants below total $4,399,078, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,061,037 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,661,959 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$19,668
Median grant
17
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $11k → 10%MUSLIM WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER: $14k → 14%MUSLIM WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER: $9k → 14%CIOGC: $15k → 14%COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION OF GREATER CHICAGO - CIOGC: $15k → 14%CIOGC: $7k → 14%CouncilIslamic Org Gr Chicago: $7k → 14%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

South Asia$5.5M · 30% · 14 grants · 2285 people

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE

Middle East and North Africa$5.4M · 30% · 13 grants · 2050 people

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE

Sub-Saharan Africa$4.2M · 23% · 21 grants · 1150 people

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.5M · 14% · 5 grants · 480 people

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE

East Asia and the Pacific$255k · 1% · 3 grants · 150 people

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL ASSISTANCE

South America$238k · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF

Central America and the Caribbean$62k · 0% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 58 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
55

Total granted

$11M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+49%

Still filing today

60%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionArts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationCivil 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

  • KF
    Khalil Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +106% · 38% of their budget
  • RC
    ROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $969k · revenue +93% · 32% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $744k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $176k
  • YR
    Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $64k · revenue +98%
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
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Chicago Sunni Muslim Society

Community Services, Prayer arrangemrnts, Teachings of Islam and distribution of zakat funds inbetween poor communities.

Religion
5
American Islamic College

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

—
6
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

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…

International
7
American Islamic Congress Inc

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.

—
8
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
9
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
10
Arab American Community Networ

it is to unity the immigrates and give them access to education that will help them get settled and progress

Human Services
11
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
12
Islamic Society of Midwest Inc

The advancement of Religion and the elimination of prejudice and discrimination based on religious beliefs

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Il Muslim Civic Coalition; 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.
04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/70
Grantees still filing
47/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center on Muslim Philanthropy: $890,525 · OtherCenter on Muslim PhilanthropyAMANAH SECURITY GROUP: $490,530 · OtherAMANAH SECURITY GROUPBONYS LLC (SUPERMERCADO MARTINS): $419,045 · OtherBONYS LLC (SUPERMERCADO MARTINS)MAS CHICAGO: $346,000 · OtherMAS CHICAGO+141 more: $3,963,399 · Other+141 moreKhalil Foundation: $2,866,833 · Public BenefitKhalil FoundationNEO Philanthropy Inc: $530,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncZakat Foundation Institute: $1,068,658 · EducationZakat Foundati…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $744,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …+3 more: $30,000 · EducationROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER: $968,595 · Arts & CultureROHINGYA CU…AFGHAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $312,277 · Arts & CultureAFGHAN CULT…MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY HOUSTON: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $123,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreINTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC: $219,491 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $200,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $80,000 · InternationalYemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation: $64,053 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $47,500 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $30,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $30,000 · InternationalUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $244,250 · EmploymentARISE CHICAGO: $121,300 · EmploymentMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $110,000 · Civil RightsCAIR-CHICAGO: $67,000 · Civil RightsJUSTICE FOR ALL: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Other$6,109,499Public Benefit$3,396,833Education$1,842,658Arts & Culture$1,454,372International$671,044Employment$365,550Civil Rights$197,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKhalil Foundation: $2,866,833 over 8y, 38% of budgetZakat Foundation Institute: $1,068,658 over 2y, 82% of budgetROHINGYA CULTURE CENTER: $968,595 over 8y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $744,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $530,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAFGHAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $312,277 over 2y, 71% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $244,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetINTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC: $219,491 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTITUTIONAL LAW CENTER FOR MUSLIMS IN AMERICA INC: $140,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $121,300 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER: $112,548 over 3y, 98% of budgetMUSLIM LEGAL FUND OF AMERICA: $110,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUS Council of Muslim Organizations: $87,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetUNIVERSAL SCHOOL: $85,490 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAIR-CHICAGO: $67,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetYemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation: $64,053 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERIC DBA RISING STARS ISLAMIC SCHOOL: $55,990 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY HOUSTON: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GREATER LA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCouncil of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago: $43,100 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FAMILY AND YOUTH INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetIL Muslim Civic Coalition: $35,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OFPAKISTANI-DESCENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $34,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDARAJAT CO: $34,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetChicago Youth Centers: $33,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUDANESE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Corps: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHSOUP GLOBAL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAJP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR PALESTINE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC: $23,100 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetISLAMIC SHURA COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $21,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE: $21,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN CLUSTER OF CONGREGATIONS INC: $20,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFirst Defense Legal Aid: $17,180 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAS BOSTON SOCIETY INC: $11,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 ↗

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.

Islamic Relief USAUnited Hands Relief I…American Muslim Commu…Pure Hands IncThe Tabbaa FoundationThe Fountain of Knowl…Islamic Food & Nutrit…United Mission For Re…Pious Projects of Ame…Mohammady FoundationBibi FoundationGiveaseed Foundation
Islamic Relief USAVA37.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Zakat Foundation of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zakat Foundation of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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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 trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 172 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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