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Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$138k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$79,100
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving9$138k44%
FY20234$206k25%
FY202214$172k36%
FY202114$149k29%
FY20207$155k29%
FY201915$57k40%
FY201812$101k25%
FY201714$106kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$557kInternational$476kPhilanthropy$53kArts & Culture$19kEducation$11kHealth$6kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
AR
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Magen David Adom$456,00050%
Har Zion Temple$266,5258n/a
Mekor Chayim Inc$133,2003n/a
Hebrew Discovery Center$41,0003n/a
Chabad of Roslyn Inc$29,2267n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$18,72010%
The Center for Jewish History Inc$8,00030%
Radnor Historical Society$6,65052%
Breakthrough T1d$6,00030%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$4,00040%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Magen David Adom$456,00050%
Har Zion Temple$266,5258n/a
Mekor Chayim Inc$133,2003n/a
Hebrew Discovery Center$41,0003n/a
Chabad of Roslyn Inc$29,2267n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$18,72010%
The Center for Jewish History Inc$8,00030%
Radnor Historical Society$6,65052%
Breakthrough T1d$6,00030%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$4,00040%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$2,9853n/a
Chabad House at Penn$2,0001n/a
Wildlife Center of Long Island Inc$2,00030%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$1,75030%
Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center Inc$1,50011%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$1,00010%
Main Line Animal Rescue Inc$1,00010%
Main Line Senior Services Inc$1,00010%
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$5251n/a
Hooved Animal Humane Society$5001n/a
Philabundance$25010%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $456,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $18,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Jewish History Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRadnor Historical Society: $6,650 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Center of Long Island Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Metro Wildlife Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Animal Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMain Line Senior Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhilabundance: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation

How much does Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation give?
Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $138,320 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (49%), International (42%), Philanthropy (5%).
Who are Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Friends of Magen David Adom ($456k), Har Zion Temple ($267k), Mekor Chayim Inc ($133k).
Does Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michael and Sheila Abiri 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 Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation based?
Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation is based in FL.

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 42 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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