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John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$100k0%
FY20232$9k100%
FY20221$50k100%
FY20215$140k80%
FY20202$350k0%
FY20196$725k50%
FY20188$1000kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.2MHealth$800kRecreation & Sports$170kReligion$111kHuman Services$50kPhilanthropy$25kAnimals$15kYouth Development$9k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Children's Theraplay Foundation Inc$800,00044%
United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc$100,00011%
Lafontaine United Methodist Church$91,0001n/a
Salvation Army$50,0001n/a
Sheet Metal Workers' International Scholarship Fund$20,00013%
United Theological Seminary$20,0001n/a
International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America$10,0001n/a
The Michael J Hach Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America$5,00010%
Professional Animal Retirement Center Inc$5,00011%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Children's Theraplay Foundation Inc$800,00044%
United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc$100,00011%
Lafontaine United Methodist Church$91,0001n/a
Salvation Army$50,0001n/a
Sheet Metal Workers' International Scholarship Fund$20,00013%
United Theological Seminary$20,0001n/a
International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America$10,0001n/a
The Michael J Hach Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America$5,00010%
Professional Animal Retirement Center Inc$5,00011%
Painters and Allied Trades for Children's Hope Foundation$3,50011%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

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.

Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable FoundationIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation

How much does John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation give?
John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (33%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Children's Theraplay Foundation Inc ($800k), United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc ($100k), Lafontaine United Methodist Church ($91k).
Does John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation based?
John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation is based in IN.

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 19 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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