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Rather than charitable organizations, the bonyads have been described as " patronage-oriented holding companies that ensure the channeling of revenues to groups and milieus supporting the regime ," but don't help the poor as a class.

Another complaint describes them as having kept to their charitable mission for the first decade of the Islamic Republic, but having " increasingly forsaken their social welfare functions for straightforward commercial activities " since the death of Imam Khomeini.

Local city and town bonyad have been accused of sometimes using extortionate tehniques to draw the traditional Shia Islamic 20 % khums donations from local business owners.