How much does Rafati Foundation give?

Rafati Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $129,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Rafati Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Animals (18%), Food & Nutrition (9%).

Who are Rafati Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Utah ($62k), Humane Society of Utah ($44k), Utah Food Bank ($29k).

Does Rafati Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rafati Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rafati Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Semnani Family Foundation.

Where is Rafati Foundation based?

Rafati Foundation is based in UT.

Foundation Dossiers

Utah · Private foundation

Rafati 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.

$130k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2025: 30
Organizations funded FY2024: 40%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $60,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 30; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $2.7M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Rafati Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthAnimalsEducationMembership BenefitOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	23	$130k	22%
FY2024	30	$96k	40%
FY2023	13	$43k	38%
FY2022	20	$42k	30%
FY2021	14	$15k	21%
FY2020	14	$24k	29%
FY2019	24	$44k	63%
FY2018	19	$31k	74%

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$91kAnimals$55kFood & Nutrition$28kInternational$26kHuman Services$21kEducation$15kCrime & Legal$15kCommunity Improvement$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Utah	$61,500	2	n/a
Humane Society of Utah	$43,950	9	0%
Utah Food Bank	$29,165	8	0%
Hope Clinic Inc	$23,000	5	5%
Maliheh Free Clinic	$17,000	3	1%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$13,500	6	0%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$11,800	6	0%
Utah State University	$11,500	4	n/a
Jahangiri Family Foundation	$10,000	2	5%
Utah Sheriff's Association In	$8,950	9	0%

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All grantees of Rafati Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Utah	$61,500	2	n/a
Humane Society of Utah	$43,950	9	0%
Utah Food Bank	$29,165	8	0%
Hope Clinic Inc	$23,000	5	5%
Maliheh Free Clinic	$17,000	3	1%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$13,500	6	0%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$11,800	6	0%
Utah State University	$11,500	4	n/a
Jahangiri Family Foundation	$10,000	2	5%
Utah Sheriff's Association In	$8,950	9	0%
Eagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce	$8,640	2	1%
The Heal Foundation Inc	$8,000	2	1%
Child Rescue Foundation	$7,500	5	n/a
Crossroads Urban Center	$7,200	6	0%
Mercy Ships International	$6,500	3	0%
Fuller Center for Housing of Cache Valley Inc	$6,375	2	3%
Gary & Jeanette Herbert Foundation	$6,000	2	2%
My Hand to Yours Inc	$5,500	2	9%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund	$4,000	3	0%
United States Deputy Sheriffs' Association Inc	$3,700	5	0%
Volunteers of America Utah	$3,400	2	0%
Exitus	$3,200	1	n/a
Utah Film Center	$3,000	3	0%
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Breast Cancer Fundraiser	$3,000	2	13%
Lionheart Gift Foundation	$3,000	1	n/a
The Orrin G Hatch Foundation	$3,000	1	0%
Bwil Sports Group Inc	$2,500	2	n/a
Youth Making a Difference	$2,000	1	0%
Impact Mental Health	$2,000	1	0%
Yor Christmas Magic Foundation	$2,000	1	5%
Eagle Mountain Arts Alliance	$2,000	1	n/a
Community Education Foundation	$1,500	3	0%
Child Liberation Foundation Inc	$1,500	2	n/a
Baseline Christian Fellowship	$1,500	2	n/a
Polynesian Football Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Birthday Box Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Smile Train Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Farhang Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
A Buddy Just Like Me Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
The Thirst Project	$500	1	0%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$500	1	0%
Iranian American Women Foundation	$500	1	0%
Nebo School District	$500	1	n/a
Utah Police Civilian Association	$500	1	0%
Dallas Firefighters Museum Inc	$300	1	0%
Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$300	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rafati Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Bill and Pat Child Family FoundationUT15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Semnani Family Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Rafati Foundation

How much does Rafati Foundation give?: Rafati Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $129,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rafati Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Animals (18%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Rafati Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Utah ($62k), Humane Society of Utah ($44k), Utah Food Bank ($29k).
Does Rafati Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rafati Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rafati Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Semnani Family Foundation.
Where is Rafati Foundation based?: Rafati Foundation is based in UT.