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FARHANG FOUNDATION

EIN 26-1574533 GLENDALE, CA

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Revenue 2024
$3,148,089
Expenses 2024
$4,272,244

Program services were 89.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P84
Classification
1000
Street
222 MONTEREY ROAD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO CELEBRATE AND PROMOTE IRANIAN ART AND CULTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE

  • FARHANG FOUNDATION AND THE PACIFIC SYMPHONY WERE PROUD TO ONCE AGAIN JOIN FORCES IN PRESENTING THE ANNUAL NOWRUZ (IRANIAN NEW YEAR) CONCERTS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO MARK THIS JOYOUS OCCASION. THE EVENTS PROVIDE DIVERSE FAMILY-ORIENTED CULTURAL PROGRAMMING, CONCERTS, TRADITIONAL MUSIC, DANCERS, CUISINE, AND MORE.

    Expenses $477,502 · Grants $20,000 · Revenue $99,173

  • FARHANG FOUNDATION'S SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IS A SINGULAR AND UNPARALLELED EVENT ON THE GLOBAL STAGE, DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO CELEBRATING THE ARTISTRY OF IRANIAN SHORT FILMS. IT PROVIDES SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT TO FILMMAKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, WITH $18,000 IN PRIZES GENEROUSLY AWARDED.

    Expenses $89,876 · Grants $18,000 · Revenue $8,108

  • IN 2015, WITH THE COMMUNITY'S SUPPORT, FARHANG FOUNDATION LAUNCHED THE FIRST-EVER PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THIS PROGRAM, WHICH IS PROVIDED FREE-OF-CHARGE TO PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS, CREATES A PLATFORM FOR K-12 STUDENTS TO BE EXPOSED TO IRAN'S RICH AND BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.

    Expenses $46,158

  • PROMOTION AND CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE BY SUPPORTING AND ADVOCATING FOR PROGRAMS AND LECTURE SERIES BY SPONSORING ART AND CULTURAL EVENTS TO PROMOTE IRANIAN TRADITION AND CELEBRATION OF THE NEW YEAR, "NOWRUZ", AND BY SPONSORING MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES, PLAYS, FILMS AND POETRY READING IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THE LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE.

    Expenses $3,193,765 · Grants $2,403,220 · Revenue $956,317

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Philip Cohanim

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alireza Ardekani

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $282,820
    From this org
    $282,820
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $249,820
    Bonus
    $33,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $282,820

  • Haleh Emrani

    TRUSTEE/CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Mark Moshayedi

    TRUSTEE/CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Andrew Tavakoli

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mehraban Khajehnouri

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Amin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mehran Mavaddat

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shazad Ghanbari

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hooshang Pak

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anoosheh Oskouian

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Farhad Mohit

    TRUSTEE/VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hormoz Ameri

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Amin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dariush Gabbay

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Samaneh Tahbazof

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ali Razi

    TRUSTEE/VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karoon Monfared

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sara Alvarez

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,148,089
    Expenses
    $4,272,244
    Contributions
    $2,680,851
    Grants paid
    $2,441,220
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,116,494
    Expenses
    $1,792,166
    Contributions
    $1,991,378
    Grants paid
    $147,972
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,290,700
    Expenses
    $1,814,518
    Contributions
    $5,264,290
    Grants paid
    $635,400

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,919,260
    Expenses
    $1,185,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,310,744

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,149,138
    Expenses
    $854,670
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,622,513

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,625,619
    Expenses
    $1,930,647
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,817,644

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,241,090
    Expenses
    $1,733,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,073,152

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,781,755
    Expenses
    $4,311,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,947,068

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,509,812
    Expenses
    $1,864,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,194,052

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $749,459
    Expenses
    $615,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,541,999

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $595,960
    Expenses
    $562,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,420,883

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,440,725
    Expenses
    $1,051,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,382,498

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $257,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $716,960

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.