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Nazem Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$127kEducation$113kYouth Development$10kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kInternational$2kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$809k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Metropolitan Museum of Art$30,000
ICE Theatre of New York$1,175
The Buckely School$1,000
St Paul College Foundation$1,000
Horace Mann School$500
Chapin School$500
Undue Medical Debt$300
Bridgewater Library Association$250
Bridgewater Land Trust$200
Bridgewater Hilltop Senior Center$100
Doctors without Borders$75
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 (FY21–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Iranian American Women Foundation: $1k → 10%Iranian American Women Foundation: $1k → 10%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
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CA
FL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$202k · 15 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$202k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+24%

Still filing today

87%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +58%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +44%
  • IT
    ICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • GS
    Girl Scouts of Greater NY Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • NL
    NYU Langone Health
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • GC
    Greater Cleveland Food Network
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
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
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and the most unlike its peers is Hord Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesIndependent K-8 SchoolsMuslim Community Organizati…Homeless Services & ShelterLand Conservation Organizat…Public Library SupportFood Pantries & AssistanceChristian Missionary Organi…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsProfessional Ballet Compani…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%45%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,733

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

27 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. 27 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $111,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $1,700 · Arts & CultureCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $43,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE C…+3 more — $1,950 · EducationICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK — $5,075 · OtherICE THEATRE…THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $3,000 · OtherTHE BUCKLEY…ICE Theatre of NY — $3,000 · OtherICE Theatre…St Paul's College Foundation — $2,500 · OtherSt Paul's C…COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $2,200 · OtherCOALITION F…NYU Langone Health — $1,000 · OtherGreater Cleveland Food Network — $1,000 · OtherMuseum of Fine Arts Boston — $1,000 · OtherSt Paul College Foundation — $1,000 · OtherThe Buckely School — $1,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,075 · OtherINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $1,000 · OtherBRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,850 · OtherBRIDGEWATER…+7 more — $1,825 · Other+7 moreGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentIranian American Women Foundation — $2,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $300 · Human ServicesAcacia Network Inc — $2,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $200 · HealthTHE BRONX DEFENDERS — $2,000 · Crime & LegalPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC — $200 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$117,700Education$104,950Other$26,525Youth Development$10,000Human Services$3,300Health$2,200Crime & Legal$2,200

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $111,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $43,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK — $5,075 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAcacia Network Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIranian American Women Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgewater Land Trust — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHorace Mann School — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHord Foundation Inc — $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEWATER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWings World Quest Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC — $200 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Nazem 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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