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Abbaszadeh Foundation at a glance

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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.

$546k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

4
’19
8
’20
9
’21
11
’22
9
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.3MArts & Culture$905kEducation$479kHuman Services$420kFood & Nutrition$326kHealth$184kPublic Safety & Disaster$151kInternational$100kOther$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR INQUIRY$100,000
THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT$100,000
ASPEN EDUCATION FUND FOUNDATION$100,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
DIRECT RELIEF$50,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS$50,000
MERCY CORPS DEPT W$50,000
START SCHOOL LATER$25,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$10,000
MEHR ORGANIZATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION$5,000
NUTRITIONFACTSORG$1,030
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MEHR ORGANIZATION: $5k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION: $5k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION: $5k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION: $5k → 12%THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT: $100k → 12%THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT: $100k → 12%THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT: $100k → 12%THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT: $100k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
RI
CA
CO
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 10 repeat orgs$328k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$2.3M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +68%
  • TE
    The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute
    4× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +273%
  • TA
    THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $134k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • FH
    FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKERS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • GS
    GOLESTAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $47k
  • KY
    KNOW YOUR LEMONS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +310%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
2
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
3
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
6
Council for Responsible Nutrition

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.

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7
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
9
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

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…

Membership Benefit
10
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
11
Aspen Rhoads Research Foundation Inc

To support personal & professional development of nutrition researchers throughout their careers.

Health
12
International Federation of Accountants

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,332,532 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC: $901,240 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC+2 more: $3,400 · Arts & CultureMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $178,400 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM…ASPEN EDUCATION FUND FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherASPEN EDUCATION FUND…THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $134,300 · OtherTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DA…FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKERS FUND: $100,000 · OtherFRONTLINE HEALTH WOR…MERCY CORPS DEPT W: $50,000 · OtherMERCY CORPS DEPT WGOLESTAN SCHOOL: $46,859 · OtherGOLESTAN SCHOOL+10 more: $13,279 · OtherThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $325,000 · EducationThe Edible S…START SCHOOL LATER INC: $117,200 · EducationSTART SCHOOL…+2 more: $5,100 · EducationTHE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT: $400,000 · Human ServicesTHE CALIFORN…Mehr Organization Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $50,000 · International+1 more: $125 · InternationalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$1,332,532Arts & Culture$904,640Other$697,838Education$447,300Human Services$420,000International$100,125Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,332,532 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC: $901,240 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA PARTNERS PROJECT: $400,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $325,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $134,300 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTART SCHOOL LATER INC: $117,200 over 4y, 35% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMehr Organization Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOW YOUR LEMONS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abbaszadeh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abbaszadeh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Abbaszadeh Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Abbaszadeh Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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