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The Naserian 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.2MEducation$1.7MYouth Development$733kArts & Culture$420kPublic Safety & Disaster$375kHuman Services$305kHousing & Shelter$295kPhilanthropy$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEEARSGeorgia Early Education Alliance for Ready$175,000
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta$150,000
Boys and Girls Club Metro Atlanta$135,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION$125,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY F OUNDATION INC$100,000
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$75,000
The Alliance Theater$75,000
CHRISTIAN CITY$50,000
Chris 180$50,000
Georgia Foundation for Early Care Learning$50,000
Covenant House$50,000
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$45,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA$30,000
SHELTERING ARMS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL: $20k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $15k → 14%Chris 180: $50k → 14%Chris 180: $50k → 14%Chris 180: $50k → 14%Chris 180: $50k → 14%Chris 180: $50k → 14%Share the Magic Foundation: $15k → 13%Chris 180: $25k → 14%Quality Care for Children: $40k → 13%Quality Care For Children: $25k → 13%Quality Care For Children: $25k → 13%Quality Care For Children: $25k → 13%Quality Care For Children: $25k → 13%Quality Care For Children: $25k → 13%Quality Care For Children: $25k → 13%Quality Care for Children: $25k → 13%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential: $25k → 13%CHRIS Kids: $25k → 13%CHRIS Kids: $25k → 13%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential: $25k → 13%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential: $15k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $25k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $25k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $25k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $20k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%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

IL
NY
MA
MO
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 27 repeat orgs$919k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
32

Total granted

$6.5M
$666k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+13%

Still filing today

41%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AP
    ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $375k · revenue +47%
  • C1
    CHRIS 180 INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +44%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $90k
  • AT
    Alliance Theatre
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • RC
    ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
American Academy of Pediatrics

The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…

Health
2
Georgia Foundation for Early Care and Learning Inc

The georgia foundation for early care + learning's mission is to support access to high quality early childhood education to georgia's youngest learners and their families, providers, and teachers through established strategic investments,…

Education
3
Family Lifeline

Family lifeline partners with families and individuals, delivering intensive home and community-based services to achieve an equitable, resilient community where families and individuals are connected, safe, and living a healthy,…

Human Services
4
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
5
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
6
Public School Forum of Nc Inc

All north carolina children shall have the opportunity to reach their full potential through equitable and meaningful public education that nourishes our state's civic and economic vitality.to provide trusted, nonpartisan, evidence-based…

Education
7
Family Services Inc

To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.

Human Services
8
Altarum Institute

Altarum is focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. we drive impactful changes in four domains: 1) transform health service delivery - we work…

Science & Tech
9
Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

—
10
Children's Trust Inc

To partner with organizations and communities to drive systemic change that impacts the root causes of child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
11
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
12
Wellstar Mcg Health Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 65 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: $1,480,000 · OtherChildren's Healthcare of AtlantaGEEARSGeorgia Early Education Alliance for Ready: $1,125,000 · OtherGEEARSGeorgia Early Education Alliance for ReadyBoys and Girls Club Metro Atlanta: $522,853 · OtherBoys and Girls Club Metro AtlantaThe Alliance Theater: $350,000 · OtherThe Alliance TheaterCovenant House: $190,000 · Other+43 more: $2,029,325 · Other+43 moreCHRIS 180 INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 IN…QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesQUALITY CARE…VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR G…Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Camp…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S …+2 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 · HealthRESILIENT GEORGIA INC: $5,000 · HealthPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthCITY OF REFUGE: $25,000 · Religion
Other$5,697,178Human Services$800,000Crime & Legal$380,000Arts & Culture$300,000Philanthropy$150,000Health$70,000Religion$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $325,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: $225,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetQUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $215,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChristian City Inc: $160,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $95,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY LAMBS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESILIENT GEORGIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Atlanta Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian City Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA24.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Jesse Parker Williams Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Georgia Health Initiative Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable 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 The Naserian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Naserian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Naserian Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Naserian 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 65 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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