Islamic charities — give with your eyes open
Where to give, how to check a charity before you do, and how to support the people whose free work fills this library. We link and explain — we never take a cut, and we never calculate your zakat for you.
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🌍LaunchGoodThe largest Muslim crowdfunding platform — thousands of campaigns you can filter by cause and country.
Browse causes → 🤍Ehsan · إحسانSaudi Arabia's national donation platform — government-regulated, with vetted campaigns.
Give → 🧮National Zakat FoundationUK zakat collected and distributed to Muslims locally — plus a zakat calculator run by specialists.
Calculate & give → 🕌Zakat Foundation of AmericaUS zakat and sadaqah, with their own calculator and a clear breakdown of the eight categories.
Calculate & give → How to give sadaqahWhat counts, what it does, and the small consistent kind that was preferred. How To Muslim.
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📄Yaqeen InstituteThe research papers behind much of the Debate Hall — free because donors pay for them.
Support → 🧠Sapience InstituteThe Divine Reality and the free dawah training courses this library sends people to.
Support → 📗Quran.comAd-free, no tracking, 90+ translations — run by a non-profit on donations alone.
Support → 🌐iERAThe dawah research and street-outreach training in the Dawah Desk.
Support → 🎙Muslim Central80,000+ lectures, free and ad-free, for 300+ speakers. Entirely donation-funded.
Support → 📚UmmaticsResearch on the ummah's collective future, linked from the Study Hall.
Support → 🎧The Thinking MuslimListener-funded — the podcast at the top of the Listening Room.
Support → 🌸RabataWomen's Islamic scholarship and teacher training, by women, for women.
Support →Check before you give
🇬🇧Charity CommissionLook up any registered UK charity: accounts, trustees, and whether filings are overdue.
Search the register → 🧭Charity NavigatorIndependent US ratings on finances, accountability and transparency.
Check a charity → 🔎GuideStar / CandidRaw US non-profit filings — read the Form 990 rather than the marketing page.
Look up filings → 🇨🇦CRA Charities ListingCanada's official register — confirm a charity is registered before donating.
Search →On zakat: we deliberately don't host a zakat calculator. The nisab threshold, whether it follows gold or silver, and what counts as zakatable wealth — pensions, crypto, business stock, debts owed to you — genuinely differ between the madhhabs. A calculator has to pick one school to produce a number at all, which is a ruling wearing the costume of a tool. Use a calculator run by people who state their position, and ask a scholar for anything unusual. That applies to the two calculators linked above as much as to any other — check which nisab basis each one states before you rely on its number.
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