Donor FAQs

The primary focus of our relief services are serving needy families in the City of Danbury and the Greater Danbury area. We provide a small percentage of relief to neighboring areas of Connecticut.

Muslims for Humanity primarily provides financial and non-financial services to Muslim families. We also provide select services to people of other faiths through our strategic partners.

Muslims for Humanity Is a relief non-profit organization focused primarily on local relief work. Many mosques provide a range of community services, especially focusing on prayer services and Islamic education. Some may provide some form of zakat giving or occasional local and international relief campaigns. Muslim for Humanity’s primary mission is relief work: helping families in need locally with food and basic needs.

We started at the height of Covid-19 during the lockdown with the goal to raise some money online to give to Muslim families in need in the Greater Danbury area. We discovered that many families were in dire need of assistance to pay for food, rent, and bills, and this continues to be the case today. We continue to do this noble work through the help of our donors and volunteers and our partnerships with other organizations in the area.

Muslims for Humanity is empathic and completely understands the need for privacy for community members who receive donations. We make every effort to ensure that the privacy of the community members receiving the help is protected. In fact, only a small number of team members on the Relief Application Review Committee who approve relief payment applications are privy to their private information. These team members have taken a privacy oath to NOT divulge any information about the recipients. We want the community members in need to feel safe that their privacy will be respected.

Yes. Your donation is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. To claim a donation as a deduction on your U.S. taxes, please keep your donation receipt as your official record. We’ll send it to you upon successful completion of your donation or you can request it.

We have a track record of helping families in our community with monthly micro-grant payments. The donated dollars are used to help our neighbors who need it the most.

Muslims for Humanity spends the donations on families in need of food and help with basic rent and utility bills in the Greater Danbury area. Also, zakat given to Muslims for Humanity is distributed in accordance with Islamic guidelines.

Each recipient is vetted thoroughly by reviewing their personal and financial information and checking references to ensure that the recipient is deserving of the help they receive. Our recipients commonly spend the donations on groceries, rent, and utilities.

Donating to causes that help less fortunate families overseas is an honorable endeavor and one that we encourage. In addition, there are many needy families in our immediate area that are in dire need of help and are asking for support from our local Muslim community. We created this organization to help local families. Additionally, it was part of the tradition of the Prophet ﷺ to take donations from the wealthy and give to the needy in the same community.

Yes. Muslims for Humanity highly values transparency. You can find our reports in our Financial Reports section.

We take online donations. You can pay by credit card, debit card, transfer money directly to our bank account or Zelle bank transfer to info@muslimhumanity.org.

We post campaigns based on the needs in our community. If you pay to a certain campaign, we view your donation as a sacred trust to be fulfilled (“amana”). We will make sure that your donation is spent toward the campaign that you chose.

Yes, we accept jewelry. Please contact us at info@muslimshumanity.org for in-kind donations. We do not accept clothing or home items at this time. If you have a vehicle to donate, contact us for details.

You can find our detailed financial reports section Muslims for Humanity makes it a priority to use the smallest donation amount possible (0-2%) for fundraising and marketing costs while still providing high-quality relief micro-payments and relief services to families in need. We do not use zakat donations for operational costs, excluding credit card processing fees. We choose to pay for operational costs via sadaqah funds/general donations and grants. Our organization is professionally run by a core team of dedicated volunteer staff. While it is common for Islamic relief organizations to use 4-11% of donations towards marketing and operations costs, Muslims for Humanity chooses to lower this percentage to 2% or less.

Ramadan is a month of giving for Muslims. Zakat funds collected in Ramadan go directly to feeding needy families in our local community.

Yes, we distribute Qurbani/Udhiyah meat to less fortunate families in our community.

We ensure that the recipients of zakat are under the nisab threshold for receiving zakat funds through our application process. We use our zakat calculator and also make sure that the recipients testify by Allah to be below the nisab threshold.

We use the zakat calculator and the rulings of Quran and Sunnah to ensure that the recipients are eligible for zakat. We view this a big responsibility and sacred trust (“amana”) and we make every effort to ensure that we execute this responsibility to the best of our ability.

Yes, you can give sadaqah to Muslims for Humanity. Your sadaqah will be used to help needy families primarily in the Greater Danbury area.