New York · Private foundation
Handjani Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $260k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Handjani Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $260k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $76k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $70k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $89k | 89% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Council of the United States Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Iranian American Council | $20,163 | 3 | 0% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Codeorg | $10,520 | 1 | 0% |
| Autism Speaks Inc | $10,454 | 2 | 0% |
| Ethical Culture Fieldston School | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The City and Country School Inc | $6,550 | 1 | 0% |
| Foreign Policy For America | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Council of the United States Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Iranian American Council | $20,163 | 3 | 0% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Codeorg | $10,520 | 1 | 0% |
| Autism Speaks Inc | $10,454 | 2 | 0% |
| Ethical Culture Fieldston School | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The City and Country School Inc | $6,550 | 1 | 0% |
| Foreign Policy For America | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $4,680 | 2 | 0% |
| Every Mother Counts | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Montessori Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $2,044 | 1 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $1,027 | 1 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc | $110 | 1 | 0% |
| Rewild | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($428k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Handjani Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Handjani Foundation
- How much does Handjani Foundation give?
- Handjani Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $260,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Handjani Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), International (27%), Public Benefit (14%).
- Who are Handjani Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Atlantic Council of the United States Inc ($150k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($30k), Trustees of Boston College ($25k).
- Does Handjani Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Handjani Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Handjani Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Handjani Foundation based?
- Handjani Foundation is based in NY.
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