· Private foundation
Declaration of Trust of the Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $181k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FARHANG FOUNDATION | $277,500 |
| USC ADVANCEMENT GIFT SERVICES | $127,500 |
| PAAIA-FUND | $53,000 |
| ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES | $25,000 |
| KEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL(KCIS) | $23,000 |
| NATIONAL IRANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| STOP POACHING NOW | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY CHILDREN W CANCER | $10,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KCPSG KENTER CANYON SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| THINK TANK SCIENCE & ART INC | $7,000 |
| UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER FILM AND TELEVISI | $5,000 |
| MUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES | $5,000 |
| COMKIDS | $5,000 |
| LONG COVID UNITED | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- FFFARHANG FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +25%
- PFPAAIA FUND5× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +14%
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association3× · 2018–2021 · $110k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UCUNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTIONSone grant, 2023 · $125k
- OFOMID FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $38k
- QIQUINCY INSTITUEone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The paykanartcar is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that unites the talents of contemporary iranian artists with a beloved symbol of national pridethe paykan automobileto advocate for the restoration of human rights and dignity for…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
Humans are endowed with innate creative abilities; we have formed civilizations and societies, framed laws, built architectural marvels and created cultural masterpieces. it is our creative abilities that have allowed us to produce…
To build bridges that protect and promote civil society, dialogue and discourse that will help cultivate a democratic culture representative of a range of voices, beliefs and perspectives
Develop culturally driven educational content that raises awareness about the human rights abuses in the middle east and amplify the brave woman-led freedom movements that resist injustice and inequality through everyday acts of civil…
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
Peace action education fund (paef) is dedicated to increasing public understanding of nuclear and conventional disarmament, human rights abuses and the arms trade, and that national and global security requires working cooperatively with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moms Against Poverty and the most unlike its peers is Amin Arasteh Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 69 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 FARHANG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Iranian American Council ↗
- Who funds PAAIA FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds IMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STOP POACHING NOW INC ↗
- Who funds MOMS AGAINST POVERTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Two Chairs Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VASHT ↗
- Who funds PERSIAN-AMERICAN CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds VOTEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE WAYSTATION ↗
- Who funds MUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE ↗
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: Maximum Difference Foundation · Gramian-Emrani Foundation · Pivotal Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Declaration of Trust of the Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin 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.