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Acf Western USA Inc

Establish educational and cultural centers for the armenian people and their culture.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHealth$614kArts & Culture$531kEmployment$453kYouth Development$205kRecreation & Sports$73kReligion$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $110,580, the rows itemized in this filing. The $160,231 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,651 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$15,080
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK$55,500
ARMENIAN SPORTS CLUB$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,080
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ARAMAZD YOUTH SUPPORT CHAR F$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ARMENIAN CULTURAL CENTER: $86k → 14%ARMENIAN SPORTS CLUB: $53k → 14%ARMENIAN ART SOCIETY OF AMERI: $34k → 14%ARMENIAN SPORTS CLUB: $20k → 14%ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI: $25k → 14%ST MARYS ARMENIAN CHURCH: $21k → 14%ST MARYS ARMENIAN CHURCH: $14k → 14%ST MARYS ARMENIAN CHURCH: $12k → 14%ALEXIS TOLMAJIAN: $15k → 14%FERRAHIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $458k → 14%FERRAHIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $312k → 14%FERRAHIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $265k → 14%ARMENIAN YOUTH CENTER: $84k → 14%ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $64k → 14%ARMENIAN YOUTH CENTER OF MONT: $55k → 14%ARMENIAN YOUTH CENTER OF MONT: $50k → 14%ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY: $41k → 14%ANCWR: $28k → 14%ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%ARMENIAN YOUTH FEDERATION: $7k → 14%WESTERN PRELACY: $248k → 14%CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL: $227k → 14%WESTERN PRELACY: $200k → 14%WESTERN PRELACY: $166k → 14%CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL: $65k → 14%ARMENIAN CATHOLIC EPARCHY OF: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $195k → 14%ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $56k → 14%ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $24k → 14%ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $13k → 14%ARS WESTERN USA INC: $253k → 14%ARS WESTERN USA INC: $200k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 7 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$3.1M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
-27%

Still filing today

43%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WP
    WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.9M
  • AR
    ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $453k · revenue -3%
  • AM
    ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $287k · revenue +4% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    ARMENIAN CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $86k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $41k
  • AA
    ARMENIAN ART SOCIETY OF AMERI
    one grant, 2020 · $34k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA: $1,939,950 · OtherWESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICAARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $453,220 · OtherARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INCARMENIAN YOUTH CENTER: $188,076 · OtherARMENIAN YOUTH CENTER+9 more: $326,062 · Other+9 moreARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $286,950 · EducationARMENIAN …ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $71,212 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION: $27,761 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureArmenian Youth Federation: $7,080 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,907,308Education$286,950Arts & Culture$131,053

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $453,220 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $286,950 over 4y, 26% of budgetARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $71,212 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION: $27,761 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetArmenian Youth Federation: $7,080 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Armenian Youth Federation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Armenian Cultural FoundationCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Armenian Cultural Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Ucla Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Acf Western USA Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acf Western USA Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Acf Western USA Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $81k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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