Riaz Valani
Profile Summary
Riaz Valani is a California-based finance industry figure, born in 1976, with an estimated net worth of ~$2.4B RTB. SEC records identify him as a reporting person connected to Better Home & Finance Holding Co., Ouster, 1/0 Mortgage Investment, and Better Portfolio Holdings 1 SEC EDGAR.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists 12 insider-related filings for Valani, including filings involving Better Home & Finance Holding Co. and Ouster SEC EDGAR. His recent filings include Form 4 reports in 2024, which disclose changes in an insider's ownership of company securities, and a Schedule 13D/A dated September 3, 2024, which amends a disclosure by an investor reporting a significant ownership stake SEC EDGAR. He also filed a Form 3 in August 2023, an initial statement of beneficial ownership for a company insider SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
Valani Foundation Inc. reported $5,106 in total assets, $100 in revenue, and $0 in expenses for tax year 2023 ProPublica 990. The New York foundation reported $0 in grants paid that year ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show 32 contributions totaling $511,700 from September 26, 2007, through September 25, 2025 FEC. The reported party breakdown was $293,300 to recipients with an unknown party designation, $157,700 to Republican recipients, and $60,700 to Democratic recipients FEC. The largest listed recipients were NRCC ($131,700), Take Back the House 2020 ($125,000), Tech for Campaigns ($50,000), Protecting Our Vote PAC ($50,000), and the DNC Services Corp / Democratic National Committee ($33,900) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $511,700.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
The filing we hold reports no grants paid. That is what the disclosure says, not a gap in our data — the source is linked below.
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
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