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Rahimian 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $40,000 |
| UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE | $20,000 |
| IRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
| KHARIZAK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MEHR ORGANIZATION INC | $11,500 |
| BERKELEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FUNDS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO | $4,000 |
| IACEC | $4,000 |
| OLIVE CREST CHARITY | $4,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SACRAMENTO | $2,000 |
| NIOSHA INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF ARTS | $2,000 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 69% of grant dollars ($615k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 31% that went abroad ($282k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Beyond the US — 31% of all-years giving ($282k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +112%
- ISIRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +194%
- MOMehr Organization Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +506% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- UFUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT CSU SACRAMENTOone grant, 2018 · $100k
- SLSacramento Literacy Foundationone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -29%
- TSTHE SOFIA THEATERone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To celebrate and promote iranian art and culture for the benefit of the community at large
Iranshahr Orchestra is a non political non-profit organization dedicated to support composers, performers, and educatiors to promote and preserve persian music. The organization will pursue three activities in: education, community…
Promote the expressive arts of the historic silk road region of Eurasia
The mission of PCC is to promote Persian culture, language, literature, and arts in the San Francisco Bay Area through providing classes and activities for children and adults.
To build bridges that protect and promote civil society, dialogue and discourse that will help cultivate a democratic culture representative of a range of voices, beliefs and perspectives
The mission of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center is to: Establish a comprehensive and objective historical record of the human rights situation in Iran, and on the basis of this record, establish responsibility for patterns of…
Memorable Cultural events and concerts in SF Bay area
Cultural and educational programs including the seattle iranian festival, poetry workshops, youth and leadership development programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Literacy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marin Friends of Ferals. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mehr Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds PARS EQUALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE ↗
- Who funds Iranian American Cultural and Education Center ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Literacy Foundation ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VISION MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD AT THE WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Rumi House ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC ↗
- Who funds NIOSHA INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF ART ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · The California Endowment · The Razi Family Foundation · Ed and Betty Manoyan Foundation · Pivotal Foundation · Kelly Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Rahimian 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.
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.
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