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BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE

BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being RAHIMIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$65k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$3k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Borna Cultural House does

Mission

At Borna's Farsi school and cultural center our formost objective is to provide our students with the essential cutural and language skills while fostering a deep appreciation and respect for their cultural heritage.we are committed to delivering a high-quality education from an objective standpoint, insuring that our students thrive in a safe, nurturing, and optimal learning environment.Our program is to inspire a passion for learning the Farsi and all the unique cultural aspects associated with it, while encouraging Iranian American children to make positive contributions to our world and preserve their Persion culture.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. In 2024, Borna Farsi School accomplished significant milestones by successfully running core language classes for ages 3 to 14, conducting diverse workshops in art, music, and dance, and hosting three major events: Yalda night, Nowruz celebration, and a memorable graduation ceremony.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 96 ($47k) Expenses 95 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2025 Revenue 135 ($65k) Expenses 135 ($65k) Net assets 99 ($3k)
201920242025
Revenue (135)Expenses (135)Net assets (99)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4k to $3k (−1%).

$0
$4k
$3k
201920242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’19
$555
’24
−$31
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $2k.

Funder
'19
'23
'26*
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE?
BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being RAHIMIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,000 in grants to BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE?
RAHIMIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BORNA CULTURAL HOUSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing