Michael and Sheila Abiri Foundation

• Because the foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, a charity with no existing link to it should not send in an application.
• If your organisation is a congregation or Jewish community group, or does the kind of work the filing records (wildlife, a senior centre, a historical society), that is the fit to point to, and any request should describe your organisation, since the recorded purposes are general-fund payments.
• About 8 in 10 of its 42 grants to organisations fall between $525 and $50,000, and half were $2,000 or less, so a modest request suits it, though its largest grant was about $79,000.
• Most of its grant dollars went to organisations it had funded in earlier filings, so it looks largely relationship-led, and no stated geographic focus means location is not a condition, even though most of its giving is in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Downtown Jewish Center Chabad · Payments for general fund
  $79,1002024 tax year
• Har Zion Temple · Payments for general fund
  $33,0002024 tax year
• Friends of the Israel Defense Forces · Payments for general fund
  $18,7202024 tax year
• Chabad of Fort Lee · Payments for general fund
  $2,0002024 tax year
• Chabad House at Penn · Payments for general fund
  $2,0002024 tax year
• Chabad Jewish Centers · Payments for general fund
  $1,0002024 tax year
• Chabad of Roslyn · Payments for general fund
  $1,0002024 tax year
• Philadelphia Wildlife · Payments for general fund
  $1,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

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.