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The Razi Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$98kHousing & Shelter$83kHealth$74kHuman Services$59kInternational$34kPhilanthropy$26kCivil Rights$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARHANG FOUNDATION$72,500
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$44,416
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$20,000
TIDES CENTER$15,000
VISIONARY WOMEN$12,500
LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY$10,000
LIVING WITH HARMONY INC$10,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$4,400
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$800
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $4k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1k → 10%INSIGHT SEMINARS: $3k → 14%IRANIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%IRANIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%VISIONARY WOMEN: $15k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $13k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $257k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $10k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $256k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $8k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $243k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $6k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $164k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $3k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $102k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $73k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $28k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $22k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $20k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $9k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%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.

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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 19 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$1.9M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

89%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther

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

  • FF
    FARHANG FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +41%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +14%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • OC
    OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +31%
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART FDN 37-XXX-XX-XXXX
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -116%

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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
4
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
8
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc
Employment
9
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
10
Museum of Latin American Art

The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California Irvine Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Brentwood Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Community Arts OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersDog Rescue and RehomingYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%44%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%68%10–20yr17%2%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,942

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FARHANG FOUNDATION — $1,094,300 · Human ServicesFARHANG FOUNDATIONTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $83,430 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSIONVISIONARY WOMEN — $54,000 · Human Services+5 more — $41,500 · Human ServicesTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $200,299 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY …SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $120,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $63,800 · Arts & CultureNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCI…LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANYPAAIA FUND — $37,500 · Arts & CulturePAAIA FUND+4 more — $23,600 · Arts & CultureCITY OF HOPE — $50,000 · OtherIREX NETWORK FOR GOOD — $22,000 · OtherRun the Bases Inc — $11,500 · Otherfreedom house inc — $5,000 · OtherPRECEDE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER — $5,000 · OtherTwo Chairs Inc — $5,000 · OtherANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Other+9 more — $10,810 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyLOOKING ABOVE AND BEYOND INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TRAVELERS FOUNDATION — $3,500 · PhilanthropyOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $19,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $18,000 · EducationPARS EQUALITY CENTER — $20,500 · Civil RightsLIVING WITH HARMONY INC — $17,000 · Environment
Human Services$1,273,230Arts & Culture$485,199Other$119,310Philanthropy$73,500Education$37,000Civil Rights$20,500Environment$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION — $1,094,300 over 6y, 21% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $200,299 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $83,430 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $63,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN — $54,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAAIA FUND — $37,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $24,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARS EQUALITY CENTER — $20,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING WITH HARMONY INC — $17,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetRun the Bases Inc — $11,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTwo Chairs Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBONIAD AYENEH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRECEDE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIranian American Women Foundation — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRAVELERS FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetINSIGHT SEMINARS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BRENTWOOD INC — $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $1,135 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF KING'S COLLEGE LONDON ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC — $475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $250 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Gramian-Emrani Founda…Pivotal FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Mary Ann Weisberg and…Rahimian Family Found…Maximum Difference Fo…National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The J Paul Getty Trust
California Community FoundationCA19× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gramian-Emrani Foundation · Pivotal Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Mary Ann Weisberg and Bryce Perry Foundation · Rahimian Family Foundation · Maximum Difference Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The J Paul Getty Trust

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 Razi Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 41 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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