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The Razi Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
LIVING WITH HARMONY INC$10,000
NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$4,400
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$800
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 (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 its 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%VISIONARY WOMEN: $10k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $257k → 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

+22%
+6%

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
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

  • 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 +22%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • OC
    OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +31%
  • LA
    LOOKING ABOVE AND BEYOND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -67%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California Irvine Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherPRECEDE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Otherfreedom house 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 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 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 budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRECEDE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBONIAD AYENEH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BRENTWOOD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetLOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Razi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Razi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.

    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 41 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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