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Gramian-Emrani 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FARHANG FOUNDATION | $345,000 |
| MOMS AGAINST POVERTY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–23, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +78% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +25%
- MAMOMS AGAINST POVERTY7× · 2017–2023 · $222k · revenue +257%
- PEPARS EQUALITY CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $84k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- URUC REGENTSone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ISINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCERone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -37%
- TLTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +13%
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 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…
Iranshahr Orchestra is a non political non-profit organization dedicated to support composers, performers, and educatiors to promote and preserve persian music. The organization will pursue three activities in: education, community…
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
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
The primary purposes of the organization are to (1) preserve iranian jewish culture and heritage; (2) reach out to the next generation of iranian jews living in the united states; (3) address the changing cultural needs of the iranian…
Established in 2004, the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS) is an award-winning California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity organization dedicated to improving society by conducting scientific and social…
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.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 MOMS AGAINST POVERTY ↗
- Who funds PARS EQUALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Two Chairs Inc ↗
- Who funds AMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NECO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Iranian American Women Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD International ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Maximum Difference Foundation · The Razi Family Foundation · Mozaik Philanthropy Inc · Iranian American Women Foundation · Tahbazof Family Foundation · Wjo Foundation · Declaration of Trust of the Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin Foundation · HAND Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Gramian-Emrani 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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