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Ardeshir Falaki Foundation at a glance

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Ardeshir Falaki Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$24kInternational$6kCrime & Legal$5kYouth Development$4kScience & Tech$3kHousing & Shelter$2kReligion$1kEducation$500
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IgG4ward Foundation$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Downtown Women's Center: $750 → 14%Downtown Women's Center: $500 → 14%Downtown Women's Center: $500 → 14%Taking the Reins: $750 → 14%Taking the Reins: $750 → 14%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Taking the Reins: $500 → 14%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Taking the Reins: $500 → 14%Innocence Project: $750 → 17%Taking the Reins: $500 → 14%Taking the Reins: $500 → 14%Innocence Project: $750 → 17%Innocence Project: $750 → 17%Innocence Project: $750 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 10 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$26k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+25%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +135%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +19%
  • TT
    TAKING THE REINS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • TM
    The Mansaray Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $750
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    one grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
6
Project Milk Mission

Project milk mission is at the forefront of a vital mission - reducing infant mortality rates by championing breastfeeding, with a special focus on supporting low-income african american mothers. through comprehensive services spanning the…

Food & Nutrition
7
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
8
American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Health
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
10
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
11
Preeclampsia Foundation Inc

Preeclampsia foundation: 2025 impact statement saving lives and improving outcomes for mothers and babies in 2025, the preeclampsia foundation continued its unwavering mission to reduce maternal and infant illness and death due to…

Health
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Beverly Parent Teacher Organization Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMILE TRAIN INC: $4,250 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCMassachusetts Institute of Technolgy Annual Fund: $2,750 · OtherMassachusetts Institute of Tech…The MGH Fund: $2,000 · OtherThe MGH FundAmerican Melanoma Foundation: $1,500 · OtherAmerican Melanoma FoundationThe Mansaray Foundation: $750 · OtherThe Mansaray FoundationLIVING HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH: $700 · OtherLIVING HOPE BAPTIST CHURCHCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE NORTH SHORE: $500 · OtherIGG4WARD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationIGG4WARD FOUNDATIONNORTH BEVERLY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC: $500 · EducationTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INCTAKING THE REINS: $3,500 · Human ServicesTAKING THE REINSDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,750 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI M…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $750 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2,750 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOME…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …Mercy Corps: $750 · InternationalMercy Corps
Other$12,450Education$10,500Human Services$10,250Health$5,750International$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIGG4WARD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTAKING THE REINS: $3,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Melanoma Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ardeshir Falaki Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ardeshir Falaki Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Ardeshir Falaki Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ardeshir Falaki Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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