A nonprofit organization

Live Interest-Free.

Join a community where everyone gives what they can and anyone can borrow without interest. When calamity strikes, the community catches you. No banks. No interest. No debt traps.

Application pending

Qardon.org is an independent Delaware nonprofit corporation that has filed for federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. The IRS determination letter typically takes 6 to 12 months to issue.

What this means for you today: donations are live and held in dedicated escrow. If your gift is approved at the determination date, it is tax-deductible retroactive to today. If the application is denied, your gift is refunded in full from escrow — no fees deducted. Loan disbursements and Recovery payouts begin once the determination letter is in hand. Read the full operating model →

Total in the pool
Cycles completed
Families helped
Countries reached

Numbers go live the day the first member joins. Be member #1.

How it works

Three steps. One community.

Members give first. Members borrow when they need to. The pool sustains itself.

1

Join

Agree to the principle: I will contribute to the pool, and I may borrow from it when I need to. Any amount qualifies — even $10 a month makes you a founding member.

2

Give

Contribute monthly or whenever you can. Your money enters the pool whole and stays there — invested halal, lent at zero interest, cycling between families. Tax-deductible.

3

Borrow when needed

When life calls for an interest-free loan, apply. Members qualify based on standard creditworthiness — no story required, no humiliation. When calamity strikes, the community catches you.

The group-funding principle

Together we lend without interest. Together we receive when we need.

Qardon is not one-way charity. It is a community where every member commits to giving — and every member can borrow when life calls for it. The pool is sustained by mutual contribution. This is the remedy for the interest-based system.

How we operate

How our operations are funded.

Qardon.org takes 0% from every donor contribution and 0% from every borrower disbursement. The trust is given whole. The borrower receives whole. Nothing in between can be confused with interest.

Operations are funded from investment yield on the pool — our investment committee manages a halal portfolio under independent religious-ethics oversight: halal stocks (AI-screened, human-approved), Sharia-board-approved digital assets, and direct equity investments in small businesses our members are building. The yield from these investments funds everything: technology, audit, legal, compliance, payment processing, Recovery payouts.

If yield in any period is insufficient to cover operations, qardon.org draws on charitable contributions from Fotoh, Inc. (our for-profit affiliate that builds the platform) under arm's-length, properly-documented nonprofit-recipient rules. We do not charge transactional fees on the pool to fill the gap.

Every quarter, our financials are audited and published on the transparency page. The community sees the math.

The flywheel

What we extend free to the community.

Qardon.org doesn't only run the lending pool. As a 501(c)(3) charitable mission, we fund the development of software the community needs and we gift it free to the institutions and people that serve the community.

Free for institutions

MMS — Management System

A full management system for community institutions — financials, events, congregation directory. Gifted free, forever.

Free for everyone

Live Athan (free tier)

A daily companion app for prayer, the Quran, and scholar guidance. Free tier always free.

Free for partners

Partner widget

An embeddable donation widget any community institution can drop into their own website. No fee.

All of this is funded by qardon.org's operating budget — paid out of investment yield on the pool plus charitable support from Fotoh, Inc. This is a charitable program of the Corporation, not a giveaway from a vendor.

Are you a community institution?

Embed a Qardon.org widget on your own website. Your congregation gives through your site. We never charge you. The trust stays with you.

Become a partner
Open to everyone

Muslims and non-Muslims welcome.

The mechanism is community-anchored. The participation is universal. We do not ask your religion. We do not ask your ethnicity. Everyone who commits to the principle is a member.