Arizona · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY
THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,158 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($126,535). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $358k
- Net assets
- $12k
What The American Islamic Forum for Democracy does
Mission
Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. Constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. Public engagement program provides education to the general public on the threat of islamism (political islam) and its role in muslim radicalization across the planet and the associated increasing threats to americans domestically and abroad. Our public engagement brings focus to engaging muslims in generational solutions promoting ideas of liberty against deep- seated islamist ideologies and movements especially through reform inspired by promotion of liberty, defeat of the idea of the islamic state (theocracy) and human rights and equality of all against islamist supremacism. The muslim reform movement (mrm) program further grew its platform for the growing coalition of diverse western reform-minded muslim leaders and organizations that stand for liberty and against islamism. In late 2023 after hamas declared war on
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our public engagement program continued to grow steadily with a significant boost from our leadership in the clarity coalition to "save the west". This included hundreds local and national media appearances, publications, events, and public forums as well as a heavy programming emphasis on social media engagement, and other platforms. In 2024, aifd also continued to participate in many events virtual and across the united states and internationally including forums debating islam's compatibility with democracy at oxford, and other forums on the spread of islamist groups like the muslim brotherhood (mb) and the need to designate the mb a terror organization. Aifd also participated in forms and discussions on religious freedom, islamism, middle east policy, counter- radicalization, human rights, minority rights, muslim radicalization, the "red-green axis", u.s. Government security and foreign policy engagement, law enforcement, military officer education, and veterans' affairs to name a few. Aifd organized programs via webinars with large attendance in real-time and in subsequent viewership covering areas of antisemitism, the red- green axis, integration, the threat of islamism,…
$21,422 spent47% of program spendingThe mrm includes over 35 leaders and organizations with diverse voices not only in the united states but in canada, and europe who are dedicated to reform. These networks of reform-minded muslim leaders continue to gain momentum in their work as each leader publicizes and advocates their individual work and the collective then comes together to serve as an alternative to the domestic and global network of 'establishment' islamist organizations such as the council on american-islamic relations, islamic society of north america, and the muslim public affairs council. We continue to seek out and add other like-minded dissident muslim leaders across the world to join in our fight for muslim reform towards modernity. The growing network of diverse leaders, co-chaired by aifd, continues to partner, and work together regularly, cooperating in monthly meetings, joint papers, public position statements, and hundreds of media appearances and public forums, in the promotion of our ideas for muslim reform and against islamism and to aid public counterterrorism in counter- radicalization efforts against radical islamists. We continue to work through our public platforms in hoping to shift the…
$2,465 spent5% of program spendingMuslim liberty project (mlp) is our community and leadership building initiative among young muslims age 15-30. Our program and leaders empower and mentor future young american muslim leaders who align with our work of reform against islamist indoctrination and ideas and who advocate for the importance and duty of establishing a balanced american and muslim identity. Mlp youth engage in discussions and community projects that balance their american and muslim identities. These projects include interfaith collaborative efforts, the development of university ambassadors, townhalls, and social media forums to openly discuss various current events that impact them and the u.s. We have also started reaching out more broadly within our clarity coalition leadership to other youth of other faiths to help them use our focus on americanism as an additional tool for other minority communities who have a similar and sympathetic ideological approach to integration, assimilation, and the importance of highlighting the combined national social contract of the u.s. Constitution, bill of rights, and rule of law. We also continue to look for community service opportunities that bring awareness to…
$22,173 spent48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,060.
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 $18k to $120k (+582%).
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.
100% of THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $107k → $25k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY’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
THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 84% · 2019 70% · 2020 46% · 2021 83% · 2022 80% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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
29% of THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
69% of THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY'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 $110k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY's revenue fell 90% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY?
- THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,158 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($126,535). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $358,158 in grants to THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $126,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 9 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