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Gramian-Emrani Foundation at a glance

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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.

$360k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$345k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$1.3MInternational$224kEducation$147kCivil Rights$89kHealth$12kReligion$5kSocial Science$3kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $345k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARHANG FOUNDATION$345,000
MOMS AGAINST POVERTY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILD INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 10%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%IRANIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $345k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $270k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $252k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $98k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $82k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $71k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $27k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 6 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
19

Total granted

$1.7M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+25%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • FF
    FARHANG FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +25%
  • MA
    MOMS AGAINST POVERTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $222k · revenue +259%
  • PE
    PARS EQUALITY CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $84k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • UR
    UC REGENTS
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +13%
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc
Employment
3
The Khaled Hosseini Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Pardes Foundation
—
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
Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
Civil Rights
7
Foundation for Islamic Scholarship and Teaching
Education
8
Iranshahr Orchestra Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Shirzan Foundation

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

International
10
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
11
Iranian American Jewish Cultural Organization

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Institute for Education Research & Scholarships

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moms Against Poverty; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FARHANG FOUNDATION: $1,252,022 · Human ServicesFARHANG FOUNDATIONMOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $221,537 · Human ServicesMOMS AGAINST POVERTY+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesUC REGENTS SANTA BARBARA: $71,700 · OtherUC REGENT…UC REGENTS: $20,000 · OtherUC REGENT…USC: $20,000 · OtherUSCIAW FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherNIAC: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+7 more: $14,100 · Other+7 morePARS EQUALITY CENTER: $84,000 · Civil RightsUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationKEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalTwo Chairs Inc: $5,000 · InternationalNECO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $10,000 · HealthOPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER: $500 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,476,059Other$140,800Civil Rights$84,000Education$25,000International$16,000Health$10,500Arts & Culture$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 budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION: $1,252,022 over 7y, 14% of budgetMOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $221,537 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetPARS EQUALITY CENTER: $84,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTwo Chairs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNECO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIranian American Women Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD International: $500 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.

California Community …Maximum Difference Fo…The Razi Family Found…Mozaik Philanthropy I…Iranian American Wome…Tahbazof Family Found…Wjo FoundationDeclaration of Trust …HAND FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
California Community FoundationCA19.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Gramian-Emrani Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gramian-Emrani 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 27 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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