Arizona · Nonprofit
IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC
IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,061 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($46,748). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Iranian American Society of Arizona Inc does
Mission
To preserve, promote, and support the Persian culture and Arizona-Iranian community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provides programs, classes, and community events that celebrate the art, music, history, and culture of the Persian people. Impacts a community of more than 250,000 people.
$28,866 spent74% of program spendingVPN Free Access Program provides secure, private, and uncensored access to the Internet for the people of Iran in order to promote open exchange and freedom of expression.
$7,597 spent19% of program spendingCommunity Charitable Support - assists families in the community through financial support. Impacted 10 households.
$2,650 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,113.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $193k to $239k (+24%).
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.
100% of IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
How concentrated its funding is
IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 38% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 11% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC: 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 IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC?
- IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,061 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($46,748). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $91,061 in grants to IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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