Maryland · Nonprofit
NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC
NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,872 to it, the largest being Great Leap Forward ($38,372). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundationshared funders
- National Endowment for Democracyportfolio match
- Kanaan Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $38k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN 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
NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- National Endowment for Democracyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kanaan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ab Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ploughshares Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Middle East Peaceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human Rights Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arc of Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Salem Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Mosesian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Utility Workers Union of America Uwuaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nufdi Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC?
- NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,872 to it, the largest being Great Leap Forward ($38,372). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $53,872 in grants to NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC?
- Great Leap Forward is the largest funder on record, with $38,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing