Skip to content
Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$26k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$52kInternational$28kHousing & Shelter$26kReligion$17kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$3kArts & Culture$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$857k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW$1,000
ZAFAR AND MIR FOUNDATION$1,000
EAST SIDE SOUP KITCHEN$1,000
TRI-STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,000
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD$750
RESTORATION COMMUNITY OUTREACH$700
SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY$450
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CITIZENS FOUNDATION - USA: $3k → 16%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $750 → 18%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77k · 6 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$77k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Housing & ShelterHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • SV
    SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $42k · revenue +33%
  • WO
    WELL OF SAGINAW
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +1%
  • IC
    ISLAMIC CENTER OF SAGINAW
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k

Funded once

  • IC
    ISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER DETROIT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • T
    TEMPLEARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
Saginaw Community Food Club & Kitchen

To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.

Food & Nutrition
2
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

—
3
Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation

Support library activities through materials and services

—
4
The Samaritan Well Inc

To provide charitable transitional housing for homeless adults and children

Human Services
5
Sarafian Charitable Fund U/a Dtd 11/17/2020
Philanthropy
6
Saunders House Foundation
Philanthropy
7
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

—
8
Saginaw Society for Crippled Children
Health
9
Saginaw Future Inc

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.

Education
10
Saunders Foundation
—
11
Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals Inc Dba/Cmu Medical Education Partners

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).

Health
12
Samaritan House Foundation

The Foundation exists exclusively to benefit and to carry out the purposes of Samaritan House Inc.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $42,000 · EducationSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOU…DELTA COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherDELTA COLLEGEISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER DETROIT: $10,000 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER DE…ISLAMIC CENTER OF SAGINAW: $6,750 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF SAGINAWMUSTARD SEED SHELTER: $2,500 · OtherMUSTARD SEED SHELTEREast Side Soup Kitchen: $2,000 · OtherEast Side Soup KitchenTEMPLEARTS: $2,000 · OtherTEMPLEARTS+2 more: $950 · OtherI-CARE FUND AMERICA INC: $25,000 · InternationalI-CARE FUND AMERICA …WELL OF SAGINAW: $21,500 · Housing & ShelterWELL OF SAGINAWEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGI…+1 more: $700 · Housing & ShelterTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $3,250 · Human ServicesUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $750 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · HealthGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 · HealthSaginaw Community Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTRI-STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyZAFAR AND MIR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$42,000Other$34,200International$25,000Housing & Shelter$24,200Human Services$4,000Health$3,250Philanthropy$3,000

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 budgetSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetI-CARE FUND AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELL OF SAGINAW: $21,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLEARTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Allen E & Marie A Nic…Saginaw Community Fou…Boutell Memorial FundHarvey Randall Wickes…Alice E Turner Memori…Wickson-Link Memorial…Wallace & Irene Bronn…Consumers Energy Foun…Frank N Andersen Foun…Wm McNally Family Fou…Morley FoundationCharles F& Adeline Ba…
Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial FoundationMI24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf Foundation 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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Waheed and Raana Akbar Waqf’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home