The Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice
At a glance
Key takeaways
- The grant record includes legal advocacy and civil-rights work, youth and education, housing and homelessness services, cancer and mental-health care, and Jewish organisations, so a small charity working in one of these areas has a clear reason to write.
- Most grants fall between $5,000 and $210,000, and the median is $25,000, so a request of around that size is the most realistic place to start; the largest grant was about $800,000, but that is not a guide to what a small charity should ask for.
- The filing specifies a letter as the required submission and gives no deadlines, so a letter is the form to send, with no set date to aim for.
- In the filing, 89% of grant dollars to organisations went to organisations the foundation had also funded in the previous filing, so a first approach should allow for the value of building a connection, though a first approach is still worth making.
- The filings state no eligibility criteria, and the grants lean towards California, New York and Washington, but that is a pattern in the grants rather than a rule for who may apply.
Overview
The Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice is a US private foundation based in Los Angeles, CA.
What they fund
Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2023, TY2022) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 7 October 2026.
Priority Areas
The grant record includes support for legal advocacy and civil-rights work, youth and education, housing and homelessness services, cancer and mental-health care, and Jewish organisations. Stated purposes also include scholarships, capital campaigns, an LGBTQ, gender and reproductive justice project, medical/legal partnerships, poverty work, support for low-income Californians, critical media, psychotherapy and youth literacy. General support is the most frequent purpose listed; grants also fund named initiatives and capital needs. Most recipients are in California, particularly Los Angeles, with additional grants to organisations in New York, Washington State, New Jersey, the District of Columbia and Tennessee. The filings do not state general eligibility criteria or a broader grantmaking strategy.
Geographic Focus
No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in California, New York and Washington.
How to apply
The filing specifies a letter as the required submission.
Application success factors
- Repeat giving: In its TY2023 filing, 89% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 filing.
- Grant size: Across its TY2022 and TY2023 filings, half of its 64 grants to organisations were $25,000 or less.
Where grants go
From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2022–2023.
Grant dollars by state
- The largest single recipient received 22% of grant dollars to organisations.
- In tax year 2023, 89% of grant dollars went to organisations The Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice had funded in earlier filings.
- No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
- <1% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.
Grants
How much do they typically give?
Share of 36 grants in tax year 2023 by size
Median $25,000 (tax year 2023)
The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:
- Heart of Los Angeles · Scholarship$295,9852023 tax year
- LA Family Housing · Capital campaign$250,0002023 tax year
- Public Counsel · General support$250,0002023 tax year
- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center · General support$200,0002023 tax year
- Aclu Foundation · Irmas lgbtq, gender & reproductive justice project$200,0002023 tax year
- Africa Foundation USA · General support$150,0002023 tax year
- Bet Tzedek · Medical/legal partnership$150,0002023 tax year
- A Place Called Home · General support$100,0002023 tax year
Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.
Officers and directors
- Deborah Lynn Irmas — Director
- Aaron Irmas — Director
- David Lash — Director
- Daniel Irmas — Director
- Jack Irmas — Director
- Matthew Irmas — CEO / CFO / Director
From the latest Form 990-PF filing
2 years of tax filings
| Year | Total expenses | Grants paid | Assets | Filing document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 tax year | $3,230,724 | $2,709,905 | $45,744,643 | Filing for 2022 tax year |
| 2023 tax year | $2,717,991 | $2,171,985 | $50,676,941 | Filing for 2023 tax year |
Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Sources
Registers and filings
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Hinchilla drafts your answers around this funder's priorities, using your organisation's own documents.
No credit card required
Contact
- (310) 476-0261
- Los Angeles, CA