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Dilmaghani Dream Foundation at a glance

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Dilmaghani Dream Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$57kHealth$51kEducation$36kInternational$25kYouth Development$11kArts & Culture$5kReligion$5kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IRANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
CHILD INTERNATIONAL$3,500
NAMI MONTGOMERY COUNTY$2,500
CHILDREN OF PERSIA INC$2,500
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$2,000
YELLOW BOOMERANG INC$1,500
THE ADD IMPACT NETWORK INC$1,000
WORLD TEAM SPORTS$1,000
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 (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILD INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 10%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%ROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 8%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

NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
VA
MD
NC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Dilmaghani Dream Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dilmaghani Dream Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 10 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$151k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

60%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • IA
    IRANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +286%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +30%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IA
    IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE OUTREACH CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -18%
  • AO
    ART OF HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • TS
    THE ST GEORGE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Iran 1400 Inc

Facilitating dialogue among iranians

International
2
Niac Action

NIAC Action is a 501(c)(4) dedicated to building political power for the Iranian-American community to advance peace & diplomacy, secure equitable immigration policies, and protect the civil rights of all Americans.

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3
American Institute of Iranian Studies

Promote scholarly research of iran and the persian language primarily by awarding competitive travel grants for research in iran and countries with relevant research resources.

International
4
Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
Civil Rights
5
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Inc

The mission of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center is to: Establish a comprehensive and objective historical record of the human rights situation in Iran, and on the basis of this record, establish responsibility for patterns of…

International
6
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
7
Iranian American Community Alliance

Cultural and educational programs including the seattle iranian festival, poetry workshops, youth and leadership development programs.

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8
Iranian Association of Boston Inc

The iranian association of boston is dedicated to promoting the cultural and social understanding of iranian americans.

Arts & Culture
9
Organization of Iranian American Communities Oiac Inc

We at the organization of iranian-american communities (oiac) make up a social network fighting against injustice in iran. this includes wrongful political imprisonment, systematic torture and rape and public executions.

International
10
National Union for Democracy in Iran Inc

Organizations mission is to strive for a free democratic Iran that will honor and protect the human rights of all its citizens.

Unclassified
11
Institute of Asian Scholars

naisA Global is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping talented young Asian professionals unlock their potential and become great leaders. It is the only non-profit of its kind to provide a global platform to…

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12
The Academy for International Culture and Professional Education

The organizations purpose is to provide cultural, educational, and vocational programs that advance public understanding, support professional growth, and improve community wellbeing, with an emphasis on international cultural exchange and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth and Shelter Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYLANDON SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationLANDON SCHOOLIRANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $41,000 · Arts & CultureIRANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNI…CHILDREN OF PERSIA INC: $15,000 · InternationalCHILDREN OF PERSIA …IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE OUTREACH CENTER: $10,000 · InternationalIMMIGRANT AND REFUG…RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalRELIEF INTERNATIONA…National Iranian American Council: $1,500 · InternationalWEST ASIA COUNCIL INC: $1,500 · InternationalDAST2DAST LLC: $10,500 · OtherDAST2DAST LLCART OF HOPE: $5,000 · OtherART OF HOPEIranian Alliances Across Borders: $5,000 · OtherIranian Alliances …THE ST GEORGE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherTHE ST GEORGE ANTI…YELLOW BOOMERANG INC: $3,000 · OtherYELLOW BOOMERANG I…NEW VENTURE FUND - AVON BREAST CANCER CRUSADE LLC: $2,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND -…Society of Iranian American Health Professionals: $27,500 · EmploymentSociety of Irani…THE ADD IMPACT NETWORK INC: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsWorld TEAM Sports: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILD International: $3,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesNAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC: $2,500 · Health
Education$42,000Arts & Culture$41,000International$33,000Other$30,500Employment$27,500Recreation & Sports$7,500Human Services$7,500Health$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIRANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $41,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetSociety of Iranian American Health Professionals: $27,500 over 3y, 33% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF PERSIA INC: $15,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ADD IMPACT NETWORK INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIranian Alliances Across Borders: $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Iranian American Council: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWEST ASIA COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWorld TEAM Sports: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Aryan Hope FoundationHonoring Neighbors Fo…HAND FoundationAmerican Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Aryan Hope FoundationDE26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aryan Hope Foundation · Honoring Neighbors Foundation · HAND Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Dilmaghani Dream Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dilmaghani Dream Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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