· Private foundation
The Khan Spire Family 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 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $20,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL | $1,086 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $420 |
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 (FY21–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBThe Bhutan Foundation4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +35%
- USUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +8%
- FFFARHANG FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +174%
Funded once
- KFKHEDRUP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- OSOceanic Society Expeditionsgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +88%
- NTNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -2%
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.
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To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
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Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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.
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oceanic Society Expeditions ↗
- Who funds FARHANG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Khan Spire Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Khan Spire Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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