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Ray R Irani and Ghada Raslan Irani 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $716k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $850,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $820,000 |
| FORD'S THEATRE | $200,000 |
| MERCY FOR HUMANITY | $116,000 |
| HOUSE OF LEBANON | $100,000 |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | $100,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KARAM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| USC UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT | $20,000 |
| THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF CLAREMONT | $15,000 |
| ZOE | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $860k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FTFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +3%
- TBTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS7× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +56%
- LALOS ANGELES BALLET INC4× · 2017–2021 · $267k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- MCMILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAMone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- EMEisenhower Medical Centerone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +24%
- COCITY OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $28k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
We are dedicated to delivering life-saving services, revitalizing health systems during crisis and promoting medical education via a network of humanitarians in syria, the us, and beyond.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lebanese for Lebanon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lebanese American Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds AMIDEAST ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds SFUSA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LOOKING ABOVE AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Muslim Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Honest Foundation · Hale Thornhill Foundation · The Tabbaa Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Horizons
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ray R Irani and Ghada Raslan Irani Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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