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Texas · Nonprofit
QALAM FOUNDATION INC (Texas) is funded by 9 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $126,763 in grants to it, the largest being Human Development Fund ($52,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
QALAM FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,431 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,431 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017
Grant income rose $12k → $52k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 QALAM FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
QALAM FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 59% · 2021 61% · 2022 54% · 2024 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
0% of QALAM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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.
QALAM FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 320 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
64% of spending goes to programs.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 9funders 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. view filing