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Iranian American Women Foundation

The Organizations mission is to educate Iranian-American women by conducting educational conferences and seminars and to enrich womens lives by offering mentorship, assistance, and a variety of services.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$103kArts & Culture$49kCivil Rights$21kInternational$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $13,232 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $201,630 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $188,398 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$822k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Diaspora Arts Connection$8,000
Segerstron Center for the Arts$5,232
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $19k) 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.

area typical 11%Farhang Foundation: $11k → 14%Farhang Foundation: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$65k · 3 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$65k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
-30%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • PE
    PARS EQUALITY CENTER
    4× · 2018–2022 · $29k · revenue +94%
  • FF
    FARHANG FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $19k · revenue +13%
  • KC
    KEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -70%
  • SC
    SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +13%
  • IS
    IRANIAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
2
Akf Foundation for Culture and Environment
Philanthropy
3
Iranian American Community Center Inc

Educational and cultural programs and events

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Iranian American Community Alliance

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

6
Armenian Film Society

Armenian film society celebrates armenian culture through year-round programming of film screenings, discussions, workshop, and lectures. it shines a spotlight on armenian films and filmmakers, as week as films that deal with armenian…

Arts & Culture
7
International Foundation for Arts & Culture Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc
Employment
9
California Institute of Contemporary Art
10
Iranian Scholarship Foundation

Education/Culture

Education
11
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
Arts & Culture
12
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Coast Repertory Inc 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.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATION — $80,400 · OtherAMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATIONSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COAST REPERT…Diaspora Arts Connection Inc — $8,000 · Arts & CultureDiaspora Arts Conn…Segerstrom Center for the Arts — $5,232 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center …ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNTY MUSE…PARS EQUALITY CENTER — $29,172 · Civil RightsPARS EQUALITY CEN…FARHANG FOUNDATION — $18,830 · Human ServicesFARHANG FOU…KEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $17,110 · InternationalKEEP CHILD…IRANIAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $8,000 · Education
Other$80,400Arts & Culture$30,232Civil Rights$29,172Human Services$18,830International$17,110Education$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARS EQUALITY CENTER — $29,172 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION — $18,830 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $17,110 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRANIAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $8,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $5,232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gramian-Emrani Foundation · Maximum Difference Foundation · HAND Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Iranian American Women 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Iranian American Women Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Iranian American Women 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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