· Private foundation
John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBALL STATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2021 · $1.0M
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $800k · revenue +45%
- CCCARMEL CLAY PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2018–2019 · $100k
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +11%
- LULAFONTAINE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $91k
- BCBAUGO COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
The Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA) is the governing body of organized, mounted hunting of acceptable quarry within North America and Canada. It promotes and protects the sport, recognizes organized hunts which meet its published…
The mission of the ushja is to unify and represent the hunter and jumper disciplines of equestrian sport through education, recognition and sport programs.
The finishing trades institute of the mid-atlantic region provides necessary skills to individuals for career advancement to journeyperson status and continued education in the international union of painters and allied trades construction…
The united states equestrian federation's mission is to provide access to and increase participation in equestrian sports at all levels by ensuring fairness, safety, and enjoyment.
The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…
To better conditions of those engaged in the pursuit of various equine related activities; to support research aimed at improving the horse as a species; and to promote the development of a higher degree of efficiency for its members in…
To record and preserve the pedigree of the American Quarter Horse, while maintaining its welfare and integrity and promoting lifelong enjoyment of the breed.
The mission of the american paint horse association is to collect, record and preserve the pedigrees of american paint horses, and to stimulate and regulate all matters pertaining to the promotion, history, breeding and exhibition of this…
Founded in 1994, the foundation for the horse is governed and stewarded by equine veterinarians. our mission to improve the health and welfare of horses is supported by the expertise of many world-renowned caregivers and researchers,…
The corporation is formed to promte and encourage public interest in agricultural and ranching through reining horse shows and programs; to develop standards and performance and judging of reinging horses; to encourage the development and…
To cultivate and provide financial support for the advancement of dressage in the united states.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL ANIMAL RETIREMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES FOR CHILDREN'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John R Irving Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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