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Semnani Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$22MHealth$1.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$820kHuman Services$791kInternational$636kEducation$523kCommunity Improvement$500kReligion$340kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $111k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $279k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $520k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.7M
$5,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$132M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND$3,965,750
UTAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP$500,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$250,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION$125,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$110,054
ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION$100,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$75,000
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$60,000
US FRIENDS OF AMAR$50,000
UTAH HERITAGE & ARTS FOUNDATION$20,000
HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
USU INSTITUTE FOR LAND WATER & AIR$20,000
UTAH AIDS FOUNDATION$20,000
PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF BOSNIAKS SALT LAKE UTAH$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $25k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%FREE TO RUN: $100 → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $100k → 9%SDG IMPACT FUND INC: $100k → 10%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $5k → 9%UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $8k → 14%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $17k → 8%HIRSCHE SMILES FOUNDATION: $26k → 8%CHARITY WATER: $300k → 17%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $1k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $1k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%UTAH MUSLIM CIVIC LEAGUE: $35k → 8%UTAH MUSLIM CIVIC LEAGUE: $25k → 8%UTAH MUSLIM CIVIC LEAGUE: $10k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%UTAH MUSLIM CIVIC LEAGUE: $5k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $7k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $125k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $35k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $35k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $35k → 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

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
NV
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 61 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
109

Total granted

$4.6M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+22%

Still filing today

51%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MF
    Maliheh Free Clinic
    6× · 2019–2024 · $323k · revenue +64%
  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +50%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $272k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • IF
    INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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 Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
2
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
3
Utah Humanities Council

Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…

Arts & Culture
4
Utah Geological Foundation
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5
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
6
National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho

The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…

Health
7
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
8
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
9
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
10
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
11
American Civil Liberties Union of Utah

The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.

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12
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aclu of Utah Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Persians 4 Cure. 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

115 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. 115 of the 207 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/115
Grantees still filing
72/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $17,796,498 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+7 more: $208,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND: $3,965,750 · OtherVANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUNDCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $700,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESUTAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $500,000 · OtherUTAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SO…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $291,495 · Other+118 more: $3,099,692 · Other+118 moreCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House Association: $280,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $110,000 · Human ServicesSDG IMPACT FUND INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesRise and Rebuild Foundation: $75,000 · Human ServicesUTAH MUSLIM CIVIC LEAGUE: $74,500 · Human Services+9 more: $127,265 · Human ServicesMaliheh Free Clinic: $322,823 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $272,432 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $260,000 · HealthUtah Aids Foundation: $43,000 · Health+12 more: $55,707 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $160,000 · InternationalPENNY APPEAL USA INC: $100,000 · InternationalNUFDI FUND INC: $70,000 · InternationalBRAC USA INC: $28,000 · InternationalWomen of the World: $21,000 · International+12 more: $57,000 · InternationalWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · EducationTRUTH FOR JUSTICE RIGHTS IN IRAN: $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationSTAND4KIND: $20,000 · EducationROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Education+4 more: $13,000 · EducationUtah Cultural Alliance Foundation: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH HERITAGE AND ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $32,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$18,004,498Other$8,556,937Human Services$1,066,765Health$953,962International$436,000Education$241,500Arts & Culture$187,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $17,796,498 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $322,823 over 6y, 11% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $280,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $272,432 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $127,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $110,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENNY APPEAL USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUtah Cultural Alliance Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSDG IMPACT FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRise and Rebuild Foundation: $75,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNUFDI FUND INC: $70,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetImpact Mental Health: $58,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE HELLENIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetUtah Aids Foundation: $43,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUTH FOR JUSTICE RIGHTS IN IRAN: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget911 DAY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation: $23,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWomen of the World: $21,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POLICY PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTAND4KIND: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Salt Lake City Police Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetUTAH HERITAGE AND ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC SOCIETY OF UTAH: $18,882 over 2y, 22% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRising Star Outreach Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE JUSTICE LEAGUE INC: $14,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SALT LAKE CITY: $11,100 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
  • Who funds PENNY APPEAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Utah Cultural Alliance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds SDG IMPACT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Rise and Rebuild Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UTAH MUSLIM CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds NUFDI FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Impact Mental Health ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…Ihc Health Services I…George S and Dolores …Kennecott Utah Copper…Beesley Family Founda…Intermountain Communi…McCarthey Family Foun…Wcf FoundationPacificorp Foundation…Lawrence & Janet Dee …
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT58.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Wcf Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Lawrence & Janet Dee 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 Semnani Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Semnani Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Semnani 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 207 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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