Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Chirag 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.
- $578k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $98,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations The Chirag Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $634k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $578k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.1M | 69% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $639k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $592k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $609k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $280k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $173k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc | $353,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc | $166,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Lawrence Communityworks Inc | $105,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Pardada Pardadi Educational Society Inc | $98,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Sakhi for South Asian Survivors Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Operation Restoration | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Red Hook Initiative | $80,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chinmaya Mission of Boston | $75,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Chirag Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust · Wellington Management Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Analog Devices Foundation
How this is measured
About The Chirag Foundation
- How much does The Chirag Foundation give?
- The Chirag Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $577,673 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Chirag Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (21%), Philanthropy (14%), Religion (13%).
- Who are The Chirag Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc ($353k), The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc ($225k), Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc ($166k).
- Does The Chirag Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chirag 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 The Chirag Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is The Chirag Foundation based?
- The Chirag Foundation is based in MA.
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