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Irani Family Foundation at a glance

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Irani Family 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$8kInternational$4kHuman Services$2kReligion$1kEducation$800Public Safety & Disaster$300Food & Nutrition$100
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,015
Median grant
1
States reached
$190k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Zoroastrian Assoc of Houston$1,015
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%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

IL
NY
OR
VA
MD
SC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 14 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$12k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+19%

Still filing today

79%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $900 · revenue +20%
  • BF
    BLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $900 · revenue +98%
  • MAP International Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $700 · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • F
    FEZANA
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +19%
  • PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200 · revenue +41%
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
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
3
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
4
MedGlobal Inc

MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…

Health
5
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
6
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
7
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
8
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
9
Project Orbis International Inc

Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach

International
10
Global Health Solutions Inc

As a supporting organization, support the global health efforts of The Task Force for Global Health, Inc. by principally receiving donated phamaceuticals and coordinating the shipment to designated countries for the treatment of blinding…

Health
11
International Rescue Committee Inc

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

International
12
Medical Missions Outreach Inc

In 2005, medical missions outreach began pointing others to the great physician through an annual medical missions trip to the developing world by partnering with local churches to reach their communities with the gospel. now more than 20…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Map International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Americares. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $5,250 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERFEZANA: $1,500 · OtherFEZANAZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON: $1,015 · OtherZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTONIndian Doctors Charity Clinic: $500 · OtherIndian Doctors Charity ClinicMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $400 · Other+3 more: $300 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $900 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCBLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIA: $900 · InternationalBLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIAMAP International Inc: $700 · InternationalMAP International IncMercy Ships International: $700 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND REL…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $300 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200 · InternationalMercy Corps: $200 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $200 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalAMERICARES: $800 · Housing & ShelterBaylor College of Medicine: $500 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $300 · Human ServicesTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $200 · Health
Other$8,965International$4,700Housing & Shelter$800Education$500Human Services$300Health$200

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIA: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES: $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAP International Inc: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Irani Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irani Family 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 22 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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