Guides
Evergreen guides.
Evergreen guides to evaluating Muslim charities, planning zakat, and thinking about impact.
Zakat Eligibility: What It Means and How We Handle ItThe 8 asnaf (zakat recipient categories), scholarly considerations around programs vs. overhead, and how Good Measure Giving flags zakat-accepting charities without making the fiqh call for you.8 min readHow to Evaluate a Muslim CharityA practical five-question framework: programs, financials, evidence of impact, governance, and the zakat dimension — plus the traps (like the overhead myth) that mislead well-intentioned donors.10 min readThe Top Zakat-Eligible Charities of 2026The ten highest-scoring US charities that publicly accept zakat — grouped by cause area, with high data confidence behind every score. Refreshed annually before Ramadan.9 min readSadaqah vs Zakat: What's Actually DifferentZakat is an obligation with fixed rules — nisab, 2.5%, eight recipient categories, intention. Sadaqah is voluntary and unrestricted. What follows from that difference, practically.8 min readThe Nisab Explained: How Much Wealth Triggers Zakat?The zakat threshold: 85 grams of gold or 595 grams of silver, where those numbers come from, why they diverge so sharply today, and how the threshold interacts with your zakat year.8 min readThe Complete Zakat Planning GuideA six-step system: fix your anniversary date, inventory zakatable assets, subtract liabilities, calculate, plan the distribution, and keep records that make next year take twenty minutes.10 min readHow to Budget Your Giving: A Muslim Donor's PlaybookZakat as the floor, a chosen sadaqah rate, four buckets, automation, and the seasonal moments that multiply reward — a structure you decide once a year.9 min readWho Receives Zakat? The 8 Categories (Asnaf)The Qur'an restricts zakat to eight categories of recipients. What each means, its modern applications — refugees, trafficking victims, medical debt — and where scholars disagree.10 min read