· Private foundation
Declaration of Trust of the Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $250k+1 grant · $313k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FARHANG FOUNDATION | $312,654 |
| PAAIA-FUND | $30,000 |
| MAXIMUM DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| KEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL(KCIS) | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL IRANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| IMAN | $13,000 |
| MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND THE WASSERMAN CAMPUS | $10,000 |
| TWO CHAIRS INC | $8,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFF | $8,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MARQUES | $6,000 |
| UCLA BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $5,000 |
| KURDISH CULTURAL CENTER OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| INCLUSION MATTERS BY SHANE'S INSPIRATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFARHANG FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
- PFPAAIA FUND6× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +14%
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association4× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UCUNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTIONSone grant, 2023 · $125k
- OFOMID FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $38k
- QIQUINCY INSTITUEone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)
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…
Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
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…
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing nuclear, biological, and emerging technology threats imperiling humanity. NTI works to transform global security by developing and advancing…
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…
How this is measured
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FARHANG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Iranian American Council ↗
- Who funds PAAIA FUND ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds IMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STOP POACHING NOW INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOMS AGAINST POVERTY ↗
- Who funds AMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAXIMUM DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Two Chairs Inc ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERSIAN-AMERICAN CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VASHT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds VOTEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE WAYSTATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Declaration of Trust of the Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Declaration of Trust of the Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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