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The Issroff 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $29,050 |
| UMOJA TANZANIA INCORPORATED | $29,050 |
| START A LIBRARY TRUST | $29,050 |
| ERA92 GROUP | $29,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,050 |
| TANZANIA ENLIGHTMENT DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS | $29,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,050 |
| CANDLELIGHT FOR EMPOWERMENT CBO | $27,250 |
| ART OF A CHILD | $25,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,050 |
| YOUNG WOMEN RISE (YOWORI)(TH) | $25,050 |
| CENTRE FOR TOTAL TRANSFORMATION | $25,050 |
| OKOA MAISHA YA WATOTO (OMAWA) | $22,550 |
| READ TO LEARN FOUNDATION | $22,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,550 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Issroff Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EGECHOING GREEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $335k · revenue +107%
- ALAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +42%
ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING7× · 2017–2023 · $98k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- NANEW AFRICA FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue 0%
- MHMAMA HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +95%
- FOFRIENDS OF PJL MADAGASCARone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -61%
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.
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.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Promote peace, democracy and economic prosperity in Africa.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
The organization recruits, trains and sends college-educated africans to live in remote villages in their own countries to facilitate small-scale, high-impact projects that are identified by local people.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
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…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their…
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 157 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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: Segal Family Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rippleworks Inc · Impactassetsinc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Issroff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Issroff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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