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Nazem Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
St Paul College Foundation$1,000
The Buckely School$1,000
Chapin School$500
Horace Mann 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

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 (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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

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

+44%
+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
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

  • 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%
  • GC
    Greater Cleveland Food Network
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • MO
    Museum of Fine Arts Boston
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…The Buckely School: $1,000 · OtherSt Paul College Foundation: $1,000 · OtherGreater Cleveland Food Network: $1,000 · OtherMuseum of Fine Arts Boston: $1,000 · OtherNYU Langone Health: $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 ServicesTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $2,000 · Crime & LegalPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $200 · Crime & LegalAcacia Network Inc: $2,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200 · Health
Arts & Culture$117,700Education$104,950Other$26,525Youth Development$10,000Human Services$3,300Crime & Legal$2,200Health$2,200

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 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 budgetIranian American Women Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAcacia Network Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $1,000 over 2y, 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 budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWings World Quest Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $200 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home