Virginia · Nonprofit
IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN
IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,068 to it, the largest being MUSLIM AID AMERICA ($67,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $176k
What Ikram Foundation for Empowerment of Muslim Women does
Mission
Ikram foundation seeks to empower divorced or widowed muslim women through education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational grants for college (1st bachelor's): 16 women were awarded grants to assist with achieving a 1st bachelor's
$76,423 spentof which $63,291 as grants43% of program spendingEducational grants for vocational programs: 21 women were awarded grants for vocational programs
$100,305 spentof which $35,990 as grants57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,728.
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.
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 $481k to $321k (−33%).
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: 2020 9% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Somayyah Ghariani
Executive director/board member
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $47k → $5k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN’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
IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
83% of IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN is better cushioned than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN: 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 IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN?
- IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,068 to it, the largest being MUSLIM AID AMERICA ($67,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $156,068 in grants to IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN?
- MUSLIM AID AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $67,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IKRAM FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MUSLIM WOMEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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