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Abbaszadeh Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
82% of Abbaszadeh Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Abbaszadeh Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $546k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR INQUIRY | $100,000 |
| ASPEN EDUCATION FUND FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| MERCY CORPS DEPT W | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $50,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $50,000 |
| START SCHOOL LATER | $25,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEHR ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| NUTRITIONFACTSORG | $1,030 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $901k · revenue +17%
- TCTHE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +68%
- TEThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute4× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +273%
Funded once
- FHFRONTLINE HEALTH WORKERS FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- GSGOLESTAN SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $47k
- KYKNOW YOUR LEMONS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +104%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To protect and advance a climate for our members to responsibly create and market science-based dietary supplements, functional food, and their ingredients, for better human health and nutrition.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To support personal & professional development of nutrition researchers throughout their careers.
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Edible Schoolyard Project dba the Alice Waters Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds START SCHOOL LATER INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds Mehr Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KNOW YOUR LEMONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRANIAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ASPEN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abbaszadeh Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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