· Private foundation
Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREW ARMENIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| AUTISTRY STUDIOS | $3,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $2,675 |
| ARMENIA TREE PROJECT | $2,200 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA | $1,250 |
| ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSN OF AMERICA | $1,100 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $1,025 |
| EAST SIDE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CASP | $1,000 |
| COUNCIL OF ARMENIAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS | $1,000 |
| LIFEHOUSE GROUP | $1,000 |
| PENINSULA BRIDGE | $500 |
| MSI REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES | $500 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC5× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +52%
- GCGritty City Repertory Youth Theatre3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +7%
- TPTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM4× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- TLTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SNST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +48%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 109 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Gritty City Repertory Youth Theatre ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WOMAN'S CLUB OF PALO ALTO ↗
- Who funds Canopy ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Pursuit Of Excellence ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds Range Of Motion Project ↗
- Who funds MISSION ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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