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MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO

MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$297k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$516k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Mahdavia Islamic Center of Chicago does

Mission

The mission of the organization is to carry on religious, charitable and educational activities. We offer services such as daily prayers, friday prayer, eid prayer and other religious activities. We offer help to poor families.we provide avenues for members to learn quran and arabic languages. We also provide scholarships to students to help with their education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. This relates to our total expenses for services provided to the worshipers and masjid church operating expenses our mission is to support the muslim population in prayers teach all muslims to live by the teachings of holy quaran help immigrant muslims to settle in the american culture

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($126k) Net assets 100 ($283k)2018 Revenue 134 ($155k) Expenses 96 ($121k) Net assets 96 ($270k)2019 Revenue 129 ($150k) Expenses 85 ($107k) Net assets 121 ($343k)2020 Revenue 200 ($231k) Expenses 112 ($141k) Net assets 139 ($392k)2021 Revenue 167 ($194k) Expenses 117 ($147k) Net assets 136 ($385k)2022 Revenue 162 ($188k) Expenses 117 ($148k) Net assets 139 ($394k)2023 Revenue 202 ($234k) Expenses 133 ($167k) Net assets 151 ($427k)2024 Revenue 226 ($262k) Expenses 184 ($231k) Net assets 188 ($532k)2025 Revenue 257 ($297k) Expenses 204 ($256k) Net assets 183 ($516k)
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Revenue (257)Expenses (204)Net assets (183)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $427k to $532k (+24%).

$410k
$355k
$343k
$392k
$385k
$394k
$427k
$532k
$516k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
$34k
’18
$42k
’19
$90k
’20
$47k
’21
$40k
’22
$66k
’23
$31k
’24
$41k
’25
13
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.

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Listed556666665
Joined·+0+1+0+1+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·00011001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO’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

MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO?
MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,000 in grants to MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO.
Who is the largest funder of MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAHDAVIA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICAGO 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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