California · Private foundation
Wasi-Shirin 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.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $165k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wasi-Shirin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $33k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $44k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $38k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $25k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abundance of Good Inc | $61,450 | 3 | 60% |
| Spaandanb | $55,494 | 5 | 2% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $4,247 | 3 | 0% |
| Echo Inc | $4,050 | 2 | 7% |
| Islamic Relief USA | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $1,050 | 1 | 0% |
| Sonar Bangla Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Agami Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| India Community Center Inc | $40 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wasi-Shirin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wasi-Shirin Foundation
- How much does Wasi-Shirin Foundation give?
- Wasi-Shirin Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $32,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wasi-Shirin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (85%), Human Services (5%), Health (3%).
- Who are Wasi-Shirin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Abundance of Good Inc ($61k), Spaandanb ($55k), International Rescue Committee INC ($4k).
- Does Wasi-Shirin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wasi-Shirin 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 Wasi-Shirin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Wasi-Shirin Foundation based?
- Wasi-Shirin Foundation is based in CA.
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