· Private foundation
The Persepolis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $431k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $1,750,000 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | $231,176 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY | $25,000 |
| THE AMERICAN TURKISH SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| MILITARY OFFICER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $6,000 |
| MAP EDUCATIONAL FUND | $5,000 |
| Iranian American Woman Foundation | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Please see schedule o.the american mathematical society ("ams or "the society") founded in 1888 to further the interests of mathematical research scholarship, and education, serves the national and international mathematical community…
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…
The german marshall fund of the united states (gmf) strives to champion democratic values and the transatlantic alliance by strengthening civil society, forging bold and innovative policy ideas, and developing a new generation of leaders…
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Education and Research
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To facilitate harvard university's scientific, literary, and educational activities in washington, dc.
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN TURKISH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MAP EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR SHARED HOUSING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Iranian American Women Foundation ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Persepolis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Persepolis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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