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United Hands Relief Inc

It is engaged in compassionate projects locally and internationally to assist those who are in dire need for help and to empower individuals and families within their communities regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or religion.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

International$224kReligion$173kEducation$68kCivil Rights$33kSocial Science$14kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$7k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $191,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,511,397 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,319,897 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Reach Education Fund$50,000
Islamic Society of Milwaukee$40,000
MAS Chicago$35,000
US Council of Muslim Organizations$13,500
Prayer Center of Orland Park$12,500
Islamic Community Center of Illinois$12,000
ICNA-Chicago$11,500
Al-Hedayah Academy$10,000
Muslim American Socielty of Greater LA$7,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Masjid Alnnur Islamic Center: $6k → 12%Al-Hedayah Academy: $10k → 11%UNITED MISSION RELIEF: $146k → 14%ISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT: $12k → 21%MERCY WITHOUT LIMITS: $9k → 5%Islamic Society of Milwaukee: $40k → 17%Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA): $11k → 8%Islamic Center of Wheaton: $10k → 7%Islamic Community Center of Illinois: $12k → 14%Good360: $11k → 9%ICNA-Chicago: $12k → 7%Islamic Community Center of Illinois: $10k → 14%Reach Education Fund: $50k → 14%MAS Chicago: $35k → 14%MAS Chicago: $23k → 14%Prayer Center of Orland Park: $13k → 14%MAS Chicago: $19k → 14%Prayer Center of Orland Park: $13k → 14%US Council of Muslim Organizations: $14k → 14%Prayer Center of Orland Park: $10k → 14%Mosque Foundation: $8k → 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

IL
WI
MI
CA
VA
KS
NC
DC
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $20M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$19M · 98% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: Child protection · Food & water · Familiy assisstance

Sub-Saharan Africa$285k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Child protection

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$25k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Child protection

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177k · 4 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$177k
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+193%

Still filing today

25%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’23’24
ReligionInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyEducationSocial ScienceOther
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

  • MC
    MAS CHICAGO
    3× · 2019–2024 · $77k
  • TP
    THE PRAYER CENTER TRUST
    5× · 2019–2024 · $45k
  • AE
    AJP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR PALESTINE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UM
    United Mission For Relief & Developmentgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $146k · revenue +745%
  • IC
    ISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • IC
    ISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERIC DBA RISING STARS ISLAMIC SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +30%
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
Chicago Sunni Muslim Society

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

Religion
4
Masjid-Al-Noor

A. Teach adults and children to pray B. Teach adults and children to read holy book (Quran) C. Lecture on Quranic knowledge and Sunnah

Religion
5
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
6
Al Zahra Academy Inc

Teaching islamic curriculum

Education
7
Islamic Society of Midwest Inc

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

Religion
8
Hamzah Islamic Center Inc

Practice and education of Islam

Religion
9
American Imam Academy

Education

Religion
10
One Ummah Project

To unite the Ummah by empowering communities with impactful programs, shared purpose, and elevated leadership rooted in the Quran and Sunnah

—
11
Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America

Clarification of islamic rulings and issues

Religion
12
Islamic School of Miami Inc

Religious Education

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islamic Circle of North Americ Dba Rising Stars Islamic School; the most unlike its peers is United Islamic Center of Arizona. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAS CHICAGO: $77,000 · OtherMAS CHICAGOTHE PRAYER CENTER TRUST: $45,000 · OtherTHE PRAYER CENTER TRUSTISLAMIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $40,000 · OtherISLAMIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER MILWAUKEEISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $22,000 · OtherISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICAISLAMIC CENTER OF DETROIT INC: $11,500 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO WESTERN SUBURBS: $10,000 · OtherAL-HEDIYAH ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · OtherAMOUD FOUNDATION: $8,660 · Other+3 more: $20,500 · Other+3 moreUnited Mission For Relief & Development: $145,595 · Public Safety & DisasterUnited Mission For Relief & Dev…REACH EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · EducationREACH EDUC…AJP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR PALESTINE: $32,500 · EnvironmentICNA Chicago Illinois Organization: $11,500 · ReligionISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERIC DBA RISING STARS ISLAMIC SCHOOL: $10,730 · ReligionGOOD360: $10,538 · InternationalMercy Without Limits: $8,800 · InternationalUS Council of Muslim Organizations: $13,500 · Social Science
Other$244,660Public Safety & Disaster$145,595Education$50,000Environment$32,500Religion$22,230International$19,338Social Science$13,500

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 budgetUnited Mission For Relief & Development: $145,595 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREACH EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAJP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR PALESTINE: $32,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUS Council of Muslim Organizations: $13,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetICNA Chicago Illinois Organization: $11,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERIC DBA RISING STARS ISLAMIC SCHOOL: $10,730 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD360: $10,538 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Without Limits: $8,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMOUD FOUNDATION: $8,660 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GREATER LA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

The Zakat Foundation …Pure Hands IncIslamic Relief USAThe Fountain of Knowl…Dearborn Community Ce…United Mission For Re…American Muslim Commu…Noor Munshi FoundationPious Projects of Ame…The Tabbaa FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Sempra Foundation
The Zakat Foundation of AmericaIL36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zakat Foundation of America · Pure Hands Inc · Islamic Relief USA · The Fountain of Knowledg Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · United Mission For Relief & Development · American Muslim Community Foundation · Noor Munshi Foundation · Pious Projects of America · The Tabbaa Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Sempra 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 United Hands Relief Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Hands Relief Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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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    Find your warmest path to United Hands Relief Inc 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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