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Reza 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.

$28k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Religion$106kInternational$19kFood & Nutrition$9kHealth$6kEnvironment$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$263k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMAME ZAMANA MISSION$10,000
FILLING IN THE BLANK$3,500
GET WELL CHARITABLE CLINIC$3,000
JAFARIA ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT$3,000
HATZALAH VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION$2,000
AL KHOEI FOUNDATION$1,000
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: 43% of grant dollars ($66k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 57% that went abroad ($89k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%FILLING IN THE BLANK: $5k → 9%BRIGADE OF MERCY: $5k → 6%FILLING IN THE BLANK: $4k → 9%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
OH
NJ
CT
CO
VA
AR
TX

Beyond the US: 57% of all-years giving ($89k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$87k · 4 grants
United Kingdom$3k · 1 grant
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 4 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$51k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
-1%

Still filing today

25%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • IZ
    IMAME ZAMANA MISSION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $34k
  • FI
    FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +60%
  • JA
    JAFARIA ASSOCIATION OF CT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k

Funded once

  • II
    IZM IMAME-ZAMANA MISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • IR
    ISLAMIC RELIEF USA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • AB
    AHLUL BAYT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IZM IMAME-ZAMANA MISSION: $50,000 · OtherIZM IMAME-ZAMANA MISSIONIMAME ZAMANA MISSION: $33,540 · OtherIMAME ZAMANA MISSIONAHLUL BAYT ASSOCIATION: $8,300 · OtherAHLUL BAYT ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherJAFARIA ASSOCIATION OF CT: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $20,600 · Other+10 moreFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesFILLING IN …BRIGADE OF MERCY: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRIGADE OF …THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE CITIZEN…ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 · InternationalLADY FATIMAH CENTER: $5,000 · ReligionLIFEWATER INC: $2,000 · Environment
Other$122,440Human Services$15,500International$10,000Religion$5,000Environment$2,000

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 budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGADE OF MERCY: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLADY FATIMAH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLIFEWATER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIA ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGADE OF MERCY ↗
  • Who funds LADY FATIMAH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds SHIA ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 21 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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