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Mehran Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$154k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$275kScience & Tech$145kEducation$116kHealth$86kArts & Culture$57kPublic Benefit$53kCommunity Improvement$50kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT$50,000
BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION$50,000
UC BERKELY FOUNDATION$20,000
PRESIDIO TRUST$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET$10,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$10,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ANNUAL FUND$2,500
MAVEN PROJECT$1,500
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 (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$479k · 9 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
28

Total granted

$479k
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+39%

Still filing today

78%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +37%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +35%
  • EO
    Eugene O'Neill Foundation Tao House
    2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • BR
    BERKELEY REAL ESTATE FORUM UC BERKELEY HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +5%
  • CI
    CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -59%

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
8
Uc Law Sf Foundation

To advance the academic and reputational success of uc college of the law, san francisco ("the college") through collaborative and impactful fundraising initiatives.

Education
9
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
10
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Pacific Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Nick Traina Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr14%45%35–55yr12%40%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
7,150/63,895

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRAN…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $45,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY…Franklin College of Indiana — $10,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $5,500 · EducationGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $250,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSER…HARVARD UNIVERSITY-ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES — $50,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY-ALUMNI AND…HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT — $50,000 · OtherHARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOV…BERKELEY REAL ESTATE FORUM UC BERKELEY HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — $25,000 · OtherBERKELEY REAL ESTATE FORUM UC…UC BERKELY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherUC BERKELY FOUNDATIONTHE FIRST TEE CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO — $15,000 · OtherTHE FIRST TEE CLUB OF SAN FRA…AATS FOUNDATION THE JACK A ROTH FELLOWSHIP — $10,000 · OtherPRESIDIO TR — $10,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $10,000 · Other+17 more — $33,500 · Other+17 moreSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $48,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE — $5,000 · PhilanthropyEugene O'Neill Foundation Tao House — $5,000 · PhilanthropyCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$250,500Environment$250,000Other$223,500Arts & Culture$51,500Human Services$50,000International$11,000Philanthropy$11,000

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 budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NICK TRAINA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEugene O'Neill Foundation Tao House — $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAVEN PROJECT — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFountain Project Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLincoln — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPURRFECT PALS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $1,000 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.

East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
East Bay Community FoundationCA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mehran Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mehran Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mehran Family 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 43 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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