Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PAAIA FUND
PAAIA FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,394,402 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($201,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $669k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $187k
What Paaia Fund does
Mission
PAAIA Fund is organized and operated to educate the American political establishment, media and public about the community of Iranian-Americans and to foster greater understanding of the Iranian-American community and its Persian Heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
With regards to policymakers, lawmakers, and the general public about Iranian American culture and celebrations of the community, the PAAIA Fund encouraged Members of Congress to recognize the Persian New Year through a Nowruz Resolution that commemorates the ancient holiday and recognizes the contributions of Persian Civilization and that of Iranian Americans to the social and economic fabric of America. As part of the education and socialization around the Nowruz Resolution, the Fund hosted a Congressional Nowruz on the Hill celebration of the holiday. A bi-partisan event co-sponsored by Members of Congress from both parties, the event was attended by Members of Congress, over 100 staffers, and the public. With regards to educating law makers, policy makers, and the broader public about how Iranian American remain connected and communicate with their families not in the United States. The PAAIA Fund organized two congressional briefings with Education Committee Chair, other members of congress, and their staffs to discuss internet freedom in Iran. Similarly, the Fund also provided a separate educational session to Democratic members of Congress. A free internet is necessary for…
$582,842 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $582,842.
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 2020 to 2021, from $168k to $309k (+84%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of PAAIA FUND’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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Neda Bolourchi
Executive Director, Secretary
Board chair
Forough Hosseini
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $105k → $146k.
9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 PAAIA FUND’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
PAAIA FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 PAAIA FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 46% · 2019 26% · 2020 42% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of PAAIA FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
51% of PAAIA FUND'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 $684k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $710k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PAAIA FUND receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.4M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PAAIA FUND
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian-Americans Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAAIA FUND: 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 PAAIA FUND?
- PAAIA FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,394,402 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($201,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PAAIA FUND have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,394,402 in grants to PAAIA FUND, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAAIA FUND?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $201,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAAIA FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing