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ALIF FOUNDATION

ALIF FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$181k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$101k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Alif Foundation does

Mission

Guided by islamic values and tradition, alif fund aims to strengthen uzbek families and other communitiesthroughout chicago.we hopeto empower, support and connect our community through establishingan educational center and providing programs and services to meet this objective.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Total operational expenses such as utilities, professional fees, insurance

    $196,825 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $196,825.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($208k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($184k)2021 Revenue 116 ($242k) Expenses 545 ($131k) Net assets 160 ($296k)2022 Revenue 44 ($92k) Expenses 585 ($140k) Net assets 134 ($247k)2023 Revenue 87 ($181k) Expenses 1361 ($326k) Net assets 55 ($101k)
2020202120222023
Revenue (87)Expenses (1361)Net assets (55)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $247k to $101k (−59%).

$184k
$296k
$247k
$101k
2020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ALIF FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$184k
’20
$111k
’21
−$49k
’22
−$145k
’23
3.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2020202120222023
Listed1111
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ALIF FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

ALIF FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALIF FOUNDATION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6k to it.

Operating margin−80% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,278 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 40%Fundraising 0%

Governance

1
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALIF FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALIF FOUNDATION?
ALIF FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALIF FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to ALIF FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALIF FOUNDATION?
JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALIF FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing