Washington · Nonprofit
Council On American-Islamic Relations
Council On American-Islamic Relations (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,313,549 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($763,017). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $331k
What Council On American-Islamic Relations does
Mission
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 education to empower our local community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pro bono legal services to Muslims who have faced discrimination as a result of their race, religion, and ethnicity. During 2024, CAIR WA assisted approximately 144non-immigration clients. Additionally, we assisted over 88families with immigration help through our Afghan legal clinic for immigration-related services
$653,488 spent52% of program spendingCommunity advocacy and education via know your rights presentations and virtual events are provided at no cost to the Muslim community throughout the state of Washington. By making sure the community members are educated on their rights as well as issues of Islamophobia, CAIR WA hopes to create an empowered network of Muslim families, youth, children, and elders who use their voices to combat anti-Muslim hate. During 2024, CAIR-WA conducted approximately 32informative live online and in-person events
$426,124 spent34% of program spendingCommunications and media work to ensure an accurate representation of Muslims in mainstream media that is both accurate and culturally sensitive. In 2024 we had 98 media mentions, up in both number and scope from previous years. We also have an internship program through which we mentored 10 predominately Muslim young people interested in pursuing careers in civil rights and advocacy. In 2024 we also held an advocacy day that involved over 60 community members from 21 legislative districts meeting with their representatives. The event included morning sessions at which we educated our community on civic engagement, policy, and advocacy.
$187,003 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,266,615.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $177k to $1.3M (+610%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2021 26% · 2023 28% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Council On American-Islamic Relations’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Imraan Siddiqi
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $58k → $902k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Council On American-Islamic Relations’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Council On American-Islamic Relations leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Council On American-Islamic Relations.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 85% · 2019 44% · 2020 48% · 2021 66% · 2022 37% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
27% of Council On American-Islamic Relations's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of Council On American-Islamic Relations's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
Council On American-Islamic Relations has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Council On American-Islamic Relations
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Council On American-Islamic Relations: 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 Council On American-Islamic Relations?
- Council On American-Islamic Relations (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,313,549 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($763,017). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Council On American-Islamic Relations have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,313,549 in grants to Council On American-Islamic Relations, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Council On American-Islamic Relations?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $763,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Council On American-Islamic Relations find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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