Iranian Scholarship Fund

Analysis

Iranian Scholarship Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Menlo Park, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2023, Iranian Scholarship Fund reported income of $665k and spending of $584k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $665k (-48%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Iranian Scholarship Fund sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include FS Key Elementary Parent-Teacher Organization ($665k), Tennessee College Access and Success Network ($665k) and Holley Family Village Inc ($665k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.