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Nirman Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$56,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 14
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Nirman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY20234$60k50%
FY202214$655k71%
FY202110$323kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Human Services$585kHealth$398kEducation$42kReligion$10kInternational$2kFood & Nutrition$1kEnvironment$45

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Nirman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$21,00030%
Devotional Associates of Yoges$8,0042n/a
Inova Health Care Services$4,00020%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$2,00010%
Charuhas Foundation Inc$2,00012%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$1,00310%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00110%
Americares Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Central Union Mission$10410%
Rajdhani Mandir$1011n/a
National Arbor Day Foundation$4510%
House of Ruth$3010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($998k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nirman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInova Health Care Services: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharuhas Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $1,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Union Mission: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Ruth: $30 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 10.

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About Nirman Foundation

How much does Nirman Foundation give?
Nirman Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $59,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Nirman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (56%), Health (38%), Education (4%).
Who are Nirman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($21k), Devotional Associates of Yoges ($8k), Inova Health Care Services ($4k).
Does Nirman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nirman 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.
Where is Nirman Foundation based?
Nirman Foundation is based in VA.

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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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