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Rafati Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Utah$60,000
Al-Mahdi Foundation$10,000
Humane Society of Utah$7,500
Habitat for Humanity$5,500
My Hands to Yours$5,000
Gary and Jeanette Herbert Foundatio$5,000
Jahangiri Family Foundation$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Volunteers of America$3,100
Doctors Without Borders$3,000
Utah State University$3,000
Lionheart Gift Foundation$3,000
Special Needs Senior Dog Sanctuary$2,000
Mercy Ships$2,000
ASPCA$1,500
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $500 → 14%Farhang Foundation: $1k → 14%Iranian American Women Foundation: $500 → 10%Yor Christmas Magic Foundation: $2k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $2k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $2k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $2k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $1k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $1k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $200 → 8%Lionheart Gift Foundation: $3k → 8%Child Liberation Foundation: $1k → 8%Child Liberation Foundation: $500 → 8%Youth Making a Difference: $2k → 8%Utah Police Civilian Association: $500 → 8%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

NY
NV
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
KS
NC
DC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 38 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
29

Total granted

$377k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

63%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Human ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +90%
  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +95%
  • HC
    Hope Clinic Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • E
    EXITUS
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • EM
    Eagle Mountain Legion Post
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council

The organization's mission is to end domestic violence in utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership. the organization is the nationally recognized domestic violence coalition for the state of utah.

Crime & Legal
2
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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3
The Christmas Box International

The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…

Community Improvement
4
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

—
5
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
6
Utah Health & Human Rights Project

The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.

Health
7
Utah Geological Foundation
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8
Utah Medical Outreach

Utah medical outreach a nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing medical, surgical and humanitarian services to needy children, individuals and families who do not otherwise have access to these services. comprised of a team of medical…

International
9
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
10
Utah Swat Inc
—
11
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
12
Utah Animal Advocacy Foundation

The Utah Animal Advocacy Foundation is an all-volunteer organization working to help end the euthanasia of homeless pets. We specialize in the rescue and rehabilitation of animals with special needs including seniors, injured animals,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Orrin G Hatch Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

36 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. 36 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $61,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUTAH FOOD BANK: $29,165 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHuntsman Cancer Institute: $17,500 · OtherHuntsman Cancer InstituteUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $11,500 · OtherAl-Mahdi Foundation: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+41 more: $101,475 · Other+41 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $43,950 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $11,800 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN S…+1 more: $300 · AnimalsHope Clinic Inc: $23,000 · HealthHope Clinic I…Maliheh Free Clinic: $17,000 · HealthMaliheh Free …MY HAND TO YOURS INC: $5,500 · HealthMY HAND TO YO…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $3,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSIS…BREAST CANCER FUNDRAISER: $3,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,500 · InternationalJAHANGIRI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $6,500 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $4,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalCrossroads Urban Center: $7,200 · Human ServicesLIONHEART GIFT FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $2,000 · Human ServicesYOR CHRISTMAS MAGIC FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesChild Liberation Foundation Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesFARHANG FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesUTAH SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN: $8,950 · Crime & LegalEagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce: $8,640 · Membership Benefit
Other$260,140Animals$56,050Health$51,500International$34,500Human Services$18,200Crime & Legal$8,950Membership Benefit$8,640

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $43,950 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $29,165 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHope Clinic Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $17,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $11,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAHANGIRI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetUTAH SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN: $8,950 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetEagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce: $8,640 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Heal Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $7,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $6,375 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMY HAND TO YOURS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $3,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER FUNDRAISER: $3,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetImpact Mental Health: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOR CHRISTMAS MAGIC FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THIRST PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIranian American Women Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $300 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.

  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Hope Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds JAHANGIRI FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds The Heal Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MY HAND TO YOURS INC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER FUNDRAISER ↗
  • Who funds LIONHEART GIFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION ↗

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 Fa…Sorenson Legacy Found…Semnani Family Founda…The Ashton Family Fou…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rafati Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rafati Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 72 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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