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Rahimian Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$166k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$330kEducation$267kPhilanthropy$91kArts & Culture$56kHuman Services$49kCivil Rights$38kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
IACEC$4,000
CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO$4,000
OLIVE CREST CHARITY$4,000
NIOSHA INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF ARTS$2,000
WIND YOUTH SERVICES$2,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF SACRAMENTO$2,000
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.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 9%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $12k → 12%FAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 → 9%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $9k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $8k → 12%THE IRANIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $7k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $6k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $5k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $1k → 12%MEHR ORGANIZATION INC: $500 → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 12%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.

Beyond the US: 31% of all-years giving ($282k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Iran$282k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$625k · 19 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
27

Total granted

$625k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+18%

Still filing today

58%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +112%
  • IS
    IRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +194%
  • MO
    Mehr Organization Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +580% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • UF
    UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT CSU SACRAMENTO
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • SL
    Sacramento Literacy Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -29%
  • TS
    THE SOFIA THEATER
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Farhang Foundation

To celebrate and promote iranian art and culture for the benefit of the community at large

Human Services
2
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc
Employment
3
Sacramento Assyrian Club
Philanthropy
4
Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
Civil Rights
5
Iranshahr Orchestra Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Ballet Afsaneh Art & Culture Society

Promote the expressive arts of the historic silk road region of Eurasia

Arts & Culture
7
Persian Cultural Club

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Shirzan Foundation

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

International
9
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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10
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Inc

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…

International
11
Azerbaijan Cultural Society of Northern California

Memorable Cultural events and concerts in SF Bay area

Arts & Culture
12
Iranian American Community Alliance

Cultural and educational programs including the seattle iranian festival, poetry workshops, youth and leadership development programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Literacy Foundation; 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.
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 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
20/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAHIMIAN CHARITY HOSPITAL: $282,422 · OtherRAHIMIAN CHARITY HOSPITALUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT CSU SACRAMENTO: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT CSU SACRAMENTOCITY OF HOPE: $40,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEIMESC: $32,190 · OtherIMESCOMID FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Other+22 more: $112,550 · Other+22 moreTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $70,500 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATI…IRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $49,000 · EducationIRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP F…THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE: $20,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…Sacramento Literacy Foundation: $12,000 · EducationSacramento Literacy F…Berkeley Public Schools Fund: $10,000 · EducationBerkeley Public Schoo…+4 more: $7,100 · EducationMehr Organization Inc: $48,600 · Human ServicesWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $2,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesIranian American Cultural and Education Center: $13,200 · Arts & CultureBEYOND VISION MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureIntersection for the Arts: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNIOSHA INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF ART: $3,300 · Arts & CultureARTogether: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,200 · Arts & CulturePARS EQUALITY CENTER: $36,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $450 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $8,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $1,000 · Community ImprovementMarin Friends of Ferals: $200 · Animals
Other$589,662Education$168,600Human Services$53,100Arts & Culture$36,700Civil Rights$36,450Health$11,250Community Improvement$1,000Animals$200

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 budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $70,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $49,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetMehr Organization Inc: $48,600 over 6y, 36% of budgetPARS EQUALITY CENTER: $36,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIranian American Cultural and Education Center: $13,200 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSacramento Literacy Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBEYOND VISION MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD AT THE WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE: $5,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBORNA CULTURAL HOUSE: $4,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNIOSHA INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF ART: $3,300 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFamily Promise of Sacramento: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTogether: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVerge Center for the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAAIA FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTwin Lakes Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSierra College Foundation: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRANIAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIranian American Women Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF IRAN: $200 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Teichert FoundationSacramento Region Com…Sierra Health Foundat…The California Endowm…The Razi Family Found…Ed and Betty Manoyan …Pivotal FoundationKelly FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…California Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
Teichert FoundationCA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rahimian Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rahimian Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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