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· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $13,232, the rows itemized in this filing. The $201,630 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $188,398 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against -31% for those 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%
-31%

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
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

  • 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 +138%

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 -31%
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
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
2
Akf Foundation for Culture and Environment
Philanthropy
3
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
4
Iranian American Community Alliance

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

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5
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
6
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc
Employment
7
Iranian Scholarship Foundation

Education/Culture

Education
8
Iranian American Community Center Inc

Educational and cultural programs and events

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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11
Marie and Naim Farah Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Khaled Hosseini Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farhang Foundation; 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gramian-Emrani Founda…Maximum Difference Fo…HAND FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    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, 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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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 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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