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The Irani Family Foundation at a glance

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The Irani Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$33k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$205kHealth$32kHuman Services$16k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL$33,333
CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION$15,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%John Thomas Dye School: $5k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL: $33k → 11%THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 11%THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $5k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 14%Fund for Walker's: $16k → 11%THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $5k → 14%George Washington University: $5k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%University of Connecticut: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%George Washington University: $5k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%Oxy Fund: $2k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $2k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $5k → 11%THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL: $5k → 11%THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL: $5k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 6 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$274k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther
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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +10%
  • EW
    ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +85%
  • CR
    CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FF
    Fund for Walker's
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • UO
    University of Connecticut
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +33%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

—
12
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington University; the most unlike its peers is California Rehabilitation Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $85,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INCETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $63,333 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INCThe George Washington University: $44,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $21,614 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA REHAB…Fund for Walker's: $15,500 · OtherFund for Wal…THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherTHE JOHN THO…University of Connecticut: $2,500 · OtherUniversity o…Oxy Fund: $2,000 · OtherOxy Fund
Education$225,947Health$45,000Other$35,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $63,333 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetThe George Washington University: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $21,614 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $2,000 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 The Irani Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irani Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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