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Handjani Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$212kInternational$202kPublic Benefit$105kArts & Culture$75kEducation$61kSocial Science$50kPhilanthropy$25kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$125,000
THE QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBL$50,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS NYC$40,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$25,000
NATIONAL IRANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL$10,163
ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL OR$7,000
FRIENDS OF MONTESSORI FOUNDATION$2,000
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE$1,027
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $25k → 7%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $500 → 16%Social Good Fund: $25k → 9%Catskill Animal Sanctuary: $110 → 16%City and Country School: $7k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL OR: $7k → 28%Atlantic Council of the United States: $100k → 14%Shriner's Hospital: $3k → 13%Save the Children: $2k → 9%Saint Jude's Children's Hospital: $5k → 17%CODEORG: $11k → 9%PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE: $1k → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS NYC: $40k → 17%Atlantic Council of the United Stat: $50k → 14%Shriner's Hospital: $2k → 13%Saint Jude: $5k → 17%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $25k → 17%Foreign Policy for America: $5k → 14%Quincy Institute for Respons State: $50k → 17%THE QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBL: $50k → 14%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $5k → 17%THE QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBL: $50k → 14%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL OR: $7k → 17%Quincy Institute for Respons State: $50k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS NYC: $5k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $125k → 17%Weill Cornell School of Medicine: $40k → 17%Weill Medical College: $15k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN: $1k → 17%Every Mother Counts: $3k → 17%Every Mother Counts: $2k → 17%FRIENDS OF MONTESSORI FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%FRIENDS OF MONTESSORI FOUNDATION: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Handjani Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 48%.

Handjani Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$469k · 10 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$469k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $150k · revenue +3%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +76%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • WC
    Weill Cornell School of Medicine
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • C
    CODEORGgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +37%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The City and Country School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Montessori Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $125,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINEQuincy Institute for Respons State: $100,000 · OtherQuincy Institute for Respons StateTHE QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBL: $100,000 · OtherTHE QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLTHE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS NYC: $45,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS NYCWeill Cornell School of Medicine: $40,000 · OtherWeill Cornell School of Medicine+8 more: $45,577 · Other+8 moreATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $150,000 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE U…National Iranian American Council: $20,163 · InternationalNational Iranian American…+1 more: $2,044 · InternationalTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOO…CODEORG: $10,520 · EducationCODEORGETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationETHICAL CU…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $10,454 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,680 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $4,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthFRIENDS OF MONTESSORI FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $110 · AnimalsREWILD: $100 · Animals
Other$455,577International$172,207Education$68,520Arts & Culture$30,000Health$20,134Philanthropy$4,000Animals$210

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Iranian American Council: $20,163 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCODEORG: $10,520 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $10,454 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $6,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForeign Policy For America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONTESSORI FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,044 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD: $100 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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