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The Nima Taghavi 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.

$284k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Philanthropy$801kInternational$454kHealth$310kEducation$122kRecreation & Sports$110kAnimals$49kYouth Development$3k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$22,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$592k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION$125,000
BONIAD AYENEH INC$50,000
UCI FOUNDATION$35,000
MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$26,000
EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE$22,500
BIANCA RAE FOUNDATION$10,000
MIRACLES FOR KIDS$5,000
NEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER$5,000
AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $52k → 14%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $50k → 14%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $35k → 14%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $15k → 14%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $23k → 11%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CA
MD
AZ
AR
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of The Nima Taghavi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Nima Taghavi Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-28%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $873k · revenue +13%
  • EC
    EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +5%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • BA
    BONIAD AYENEH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $53k · revenue -8%
  • PS
    Patient Safety Movement Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -42%
  • TL
    THE LARRY FITZGERALD FIRST DOWN FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $22k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Bianca Rae Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $872,500 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATIONCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $40,000 · Health+4 more — $37,500 · HealthEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE — $189,500 · Human ServicesEASTERN CONGO …BONIAD AYENEH INC — $52,500 · Human ServicesBONIAD AYENEH …BONIAD AYENEH INC — $196,500 · OtherBONIAD AYENEH …THE LARRY FITZGERALD FIRST DOWN FUND — $22,000 · OtherTHE LARRY FITZ…THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN I…+2 more — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Patient Safety Movement Foundation — $50,000 · EducationPatient S…Northwestern University — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $103,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BIANCA RAE FOUNDATION — $48,600 · Animals
Health$950,000Human Services$242,000Other$243,500Education$150,000Recreation & Sports$110,000Philanthropy$103,000Animals$48,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $872,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE — $189,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $103,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONIAD AYENEH INC — $52,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPatient Safety Movement Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE BIANCA RAE FOUNDATION — $48,600 over 6y, 23% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALTHY US COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUREBOUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 The Nima Taghavi 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.

2024
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no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Nima Taghavi Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Nima Taghavi 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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