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TRANSFORM IRAN INC

TRANSFORM IRAN INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $840,444 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($434,805). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$766k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$840k
Net assets
$265k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Transform Iran Inc does

Mission

Transform iran is dedicated to religious, charitable, and educational activities designed to advance the christian faith, specifically to iran, surrounding countries, and throughout the middle east. To help fulfill the mission, (continued on schedule o)the ministry engages in a variety of strategic ministries. These include church planting, training, theological education, ministry through media such as tv, the internet, and publications, as well as humanitarian support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Ministry support/outreachtransform iran shares the message of the gospel with eager souls and engage with them in their time of need, offering guidance, support, as well as christian teaching when required. Transform iran also equips and mobilizes all its churches to engage in an effective and caring manner to alleviate suffering and bring healing and support to the most vulnerable segments of society.

    $255,255 spentof which $216,882 as grants
    39% of program spending
  2. Leadership developmentleadership training programs provided in the area of christian doctrine and church leadership in western asia, central eurasia and some immigrant communities in western europe. Training involves robust follow-up capability that receives program feedback, encourages commitment, supports discipleship, and provides development for leaders.

    $202,351 spentof which $202,351 as grants
    31% of program spending
  3. Mediatransform iran uses media to reach out to the population of iran to overcome its inhospitable environment, it augments church planting operations through the following: internet ministry provides farsi language online resources, sama tv provides a range of programs via satellite broadcast with partners to address audiences with the gospel, 222 publications provides affordable printed and digital farsi language resources, persian world radio provides teaching, worship and encouragement through radio broadcast.

    $147,061 spentof which $147,061 as grants
    22% of program spending
  4. Humanitarian aidhumanitarian support meets the needs of persecuted/imprisoned believers and their families, including those who have had to flee from repressive authorities. It also provides material support for christian refugees who have fled from conflict zones in the form of food, utilities and medical support.

    $47,300 spentof which $47,300 as grants
    7% of program spending
  5. Bible translationtransform iran translates the bible and supporting christian resources into the ethnic languages of iran so that all iranians can hear and understand the gospel. There are still more than 20 million iranians with no christian literature in their own language.

    $10,385 spentof which $10,385 as grants
    2% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $662,352.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($177k) Expenses 100 ($277k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 97 ($171k) Expenses 60 ($165k) Net assets 120 ($39k)2019 Revenue 205 ($362k) Expenses 128 ($353k) Net assets 147 ($49k)2020 Revenue 267 ($472k) Expenses 149 ($412k) Net assets 328 ($108k)2021 Revenue 368 ($649k) Expenses 132 ($366k) Net assets 1189 ($391k)2022 Revenue 259 ($457k) Expenses 252 ($698k) Net assets 458 ($151k)2023 Revenue 362 ($640k) Expenses 160 ($441k) Net assets 1060 ($349k)2024 Revenue 270 ($477k) Expenses 176 ($488k) Net assets 1026 ($338k)2025 Revenue 434 ($766k) Expenses 303 ($839k) Net assets 805 ($265k)
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Revenue (434)Expenses (303)Net assets (805)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 2020 to 2021, from $108k to $392k (+262%).

$33k
$41k
$49k
$108k
$392k
$151k
$349k
$338k
$265k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TRANSFORM IRAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$100k
’17
$7k
’18
$9k
’19
$59k
’20
$284k
’21
−$241k
’22
$198k
’23
−$11k
’24
−$73k
’25
3.8
months of
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

Lana Silk

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Zachariah Koshy

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20192020202120242025
Listed66697
Joined·+1+0·+0
No longer listed·10·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $229k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 TRANSFORM 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

TRANSFORM IRAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

73% 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 TRANSFORM IRAN INC.

52%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 84% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 64% · 2022 56% · 2023 62% — 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

57% of TRANSFORM IRAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

68% of TRANSFORM IRAN 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 $272k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.

WA
IL
OH
CA
TN
NC

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRANSFORM IRAN INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 12%Fundraising 9%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRANSFORM IRAN INC?
TRANSFORM IRAN INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $840,444 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($434,805). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRANSFORM IRAN INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $840,444 in grants to TRANSFORM IRAN INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRANSFORM IRAN INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $434,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRANSFORM IRAN INC 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.

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 11 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