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Nirman Foundation at a glance

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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
2
States reached
$56k
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 2023.

Human Services$585kHealth$398kEducation$42kReligion$10kInternational$2kFood & Nutrition$1kEnvironment$45
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NJ Damaniya Sarvajanik Hospital$56,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
MEM SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR$1,000
DAMON RUNYON FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

US giving: 5% of grant dollars ($48k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 95% that went abroad ($990k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $45 → 13%Feed My Starving Children: $1k → 7%DEVOTIONAL ASSOC YOGESHWAR: $5k → 8%UNICEF USA: $1k → 17%RISE-DC: $2k → 14%Shriners Children's Hospital: $101 → 13%AMERICARES: $1k → 9%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%Swaminarayan Temple: $152 → 6%CHARUHAS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%DEVOTIONAL ASSOC YOGESHWAR: $3k → 8%DAMON RUNYON FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%Rajdhani Mandir: $101 → 6%MEM SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR: $12k → 17%House of Ruth: $30 → 14%INOVA Fairfax Hospital: $2k → 6%MEM SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR: $8k → 17%Central Union Mission: $104 → 14%INOVA Fairfax Hospital: $2k → 6%MEM SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR: $1k → 17%RESOURCES INSPIRE STUDENTS EDUCATORS: $4k → 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

MN
NY
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL

Beyond the US: 95% of all-years giving ($990k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$990k · 6 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$985k · 5 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$985k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthInternationalReligionHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • SE
    Society Education Welfare Action Rural
    2× · 2021–2022 · $885k
  • ND
    NJ Damaniya Sarvajanik Hospital
    2× · 2022–2023 · $67k
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • JN
    Jawaharlal Nehru University
    one grant, 2022 · $37k
  • RI
    RESOURCES INSPIRE STUDENTS EDUCATORS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +13%
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
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
2
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
3
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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4
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
9
Urology Care Foundation Inc

We support, through philanthropic efforts, the improvement of urological care globally by funding research, clinical education, patient education, and humanitarian programs.

Health
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Inova Health Care Services. 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

11 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. 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Society Education Welfare Action Rural: $885,000 · OtherSociety Education Welfare Action RuralNJ Damaniya Sarvajanik Hospital: $67,000 · OtherNJ Damaniya Sarvajanik HospitalJawaharlal Nehru University: $36,500 · Other+8 more: $9,354 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $21,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $4,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · HealthDevotional Associates of Yoges: $8,004 · ReligionCHARUHAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · ReligionFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,003 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,001 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $104 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTH: $30 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $45 · Environment
Other$997,854Health$27,000Religion$10,004International$3,004Housing & Shelter$134Environment$45

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 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
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 Nirman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nirman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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