· Private foundation
Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIV FOUNDATIO | $26,000 |
| I CARE FUND AMERICA INC | $25,000 |
| WELL OF SAGINAW | $11,500 |
| DELTA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF SAGINAW | $3,750 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED SHELTER | $1,500 |
| EAST SIDE SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW | $1,000 |
| TRI-STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ZAFAR AND MIR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | $750 |
| RESTORATION COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $700 |
| SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY | $450 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $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 (FY24–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- SVSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $42k · revenue +33%
- WOWELL OF SAGINAW2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +1%
- ICISLAMIC CENTER OF SAGINAW2× · 2024–2025 · $7k
Funded once
- ICISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER DETROITone grant, 2024 · $10k
THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USAone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%- TTEMPLEARTSone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Support library activities through materials and services
To provide charitable transitional housing for homeless adults and children
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
To increase economic opportunity in saginaw county ensuring long term growth and prosperity by fostering investment primarily in advanced manufacturing, medical technology, renewable energy, high tech industries, and professional services.
The purpose of the corporation is to integrate medical education, research, and professional services for the training of medical learners (residents, students, and healthcare personnel).
The Foundation exists exclusively to benefit and to carry out the purposes of Samaritan House Inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tri-Star Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I-CARE FUND AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WELL OF SAGINAW ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds TRI-STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ZAFAR AND MIR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Restoration Community Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Morley Foundation · Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable 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 Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf Foundation 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.
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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