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The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation) at a glance

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The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 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.

$528k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MEducation$1.0MInternational$908kHousing & Shelter$600kPhilanthropy$435kHuman Services$221kFood & Nutrition$155kCommunity Improvement$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $455k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANGE OF MOTION PROJECT$55,000
WITHIN REACH INC (AKA LABHYA)$50,000
SEMILLA NUEVA$50,000
TARJIMLY$50,000
LEGADO$50,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$50,000
LATIN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$50,000
INTELEHEALTH$50,000
SHAMIRI INSTITUE INC$50,000
RIDING EMPHASIZING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS$25,000
DUNN SCHOOL$25,000
JOURNEYMEN INSTITUE$10,000
MASSACHUSETTES GENERAL-PACT PROGRAM$8,000
MARAT DAUKAYEV BALLET THEATRE$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TARJIMLY: $50k → 8%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $30k → 16%DZI FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%TARJIMLY: $40k → 8%DZI FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
OK
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation)’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation)lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 36 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
20

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+37%

Still filing today

75%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +37%
  • SN
    SEMILLA NUEVA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +250%
  • SI
    STRONGMINDS INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +375%

Funded once

  • LD
    LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +37%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +34%
  • SH
    SUMMA HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $90k
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
3
Well Aware Inc

Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.

International
4
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
5
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
6
Mali Health Organizing Project Inc

Mali Health improves maternal and child health by supporting women, communities, and the community health system to develop local solutions that ensure every mother and child has access to quality primary care. We aim to end preventable…

Community Improvement
7
Trustafrica

Promote peace, democracy and economic prosperity in Africa.

International
8
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
9
Bamyan Media Inc
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10
Splash International

The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…

Environment
11
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
12
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges to Prosperity Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kits to Heart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
36/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGORIDING EMPHASIZING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS: $135,000 · OtherRIDING EMPHASIZING INDIVIDUAL NEEDSTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $120,000 · OtherTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOLONE HEART WORLD-WIDE: $90,000 · OtherLATIN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $90,000 · OtherSUMMA HEALTH: $90,000 · OtherFOOD FOR EDUCATION: $80,000 · OtherUBONGO INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · OtherUBONGO INTERNATIONALNO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE: $85,000 · Other+18 more: $464,250 · Other+18 moreSEMILLA NUEVA: $150,000 · InternationalSEMILLA NUEVASTRONGMINDS INC: $135,000 · InternationalSTRONGMINDS INCINTELEHEALTH INC: $130,000 · InternationalINTELEHEALTH INCLwala Community Alliance: $110,000 · InternationalLwala Community AllianceEARTHENABLE INC: $100,000 · InternationalEARTHENABLE INCLABORATORIA INC: $90,000 · InternationalLABORATORIA INCPIVOT WORKS INC: $85,000 · InternationalPIVOT WORKS INCMUSO INC: $75,000 · InternationalMUSO INCPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $75,000 · InternationalPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN I…SUSTAINABLE HEALTH ENTERPRISES INC: $50,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL: $50,000 · InternationalBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $50,000 · International+5 more: $92,500 · International+5 moreLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATIO…Range Of Motion Project: $135,000 · HealthRange Of Motion Proj…NOORA HEALTH: $115,000 · HealthNOORA HEALTHIntegrate Health Inc: $105,000 · HealthIntegrate Health IncSHAMIRI INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $434,660 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …Friends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $85,000 · PhilanthropyFriends Of …THE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationDUNN SCHOOL: $104,900 · EducationLIFEISSOCALGOODINC: $75,000 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $12,000 · Education+1 more: $9,000 · EducationLEGADO INC: $101,000 · EnvironmentSAHA GLOBAL INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentTarjimly Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesDZI FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERS: $30,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · Human Services
Other$1,754,250International$1,192,500Health$945,000Philanthropy$542,660Education$350,900Environment$201,000Human Services$200,000

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 budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $434,660 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMILLA NUEVA: $150,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSTRONGMINDS INC: $135,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRange Of Motion Project: $135,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetINTELEHEALTH INC: $130,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNOORA HEALTH: $115,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIntegrate Health Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDUNN SCHOOL: $104,900 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLEGADO INC: $101,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetUBONGO INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSAHA GLOBAL INC: $100,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetEARTHENABLE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTarjimly Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLABORATORIA INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE: $85,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $85,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMUSO INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLIFEISSOCALGOODINC: $75,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE HEALTH ENTERPRISES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDZI FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSHAMIRI INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALTA PASA FASTPITCH: $41,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BOMA PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEWATER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $23,600 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARAT DAUKAYEV BALLET THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKITS TO HEART FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $2,500 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.

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.

Mulago FoundationDovetail Impact Found…Rippleworks IncGreater Houston Commu…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ray and Tye Noord…Child Relief Internat…Segal Family Foundati…The Goldman Sachs Cha…ImpactassetsincGodley Family Foundat…Sall Family Foundation
Mulago FoundationNY43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mulago Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Rippleworks Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · Child Relief International Foundation · Segal Family Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Impactassetsinc · Godley Family Foundation · Sall Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation)?

    Find your warmest path to The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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