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Armenian Cultural Foundation

Establish educational and cultural centers FOR the Armenian people and their culture.

$465k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$284k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$528kEducation$363kReligion$60kYouth Development$59kInternational$32kArts & Culture$24kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $434,670, the rows itemized in this filing. The $464,905 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,235 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
  • $250k+1 grant · $284k
$12,925
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACF WESTERN USA INC$284,420
ARMENIAN MESROBIAN SCHOOL$41,250
ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WEST$34,200
CLUB MESROBIAN$22,750
HOMENETMEN$12,925
ANCA WR$12,625
ST GARABED ARMENIAN CHURCH$11,000
ARMENIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION$9,000
ARMENIAN YOUTH FEDERATION$6,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ART SOCIETY 8840: $17k → 14%ACF WESTERN USA INC: $284k → 14%ACF WESTERN USA INC: $81k → 14%ACF WESTERN USA INC: $16k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$918k · 6 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$918k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • AW
    ACF WESTERN USA INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $381k · revenue -48% · 26% of their budget
  • AM
    ARMENIAN MESROBIAN SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $340k
  • AR
    ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $104k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • CM
    CLUB MESROBIAN
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • AW
    ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -87%
  • SV
    Saint Vincent De Paul Society Sacred Heart Society
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -13%
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

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.

1
Armenian Sports Hall of Fame
—
2
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
3
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
4
Armenian Film Society

Armenian film society celebrates armenian culture through year-round programming of film screenings, discussions, workshop, and lectures. it shines a spotlight on armenian films and filmmakers, as week as films that deal with armenian…

Arts & Culture
5
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
6
Armenian Cultural Foundation
—
7
Armenian National Committee Western Region

The entity engages in educational and charitable activities. The entity also supports ANCA-WR C4, in its non-profit activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Research On Armenian Architecture Usa

Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.

Arts & Culture
9
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
10
Armenian Monument Council Inc

To maintain and promote landmark monument erected on public land in memory of all victims of genocide

—
11
Armenian Bar Association

Provide pro bono services and legal education and sponsor programs to promote democracy and rule of law.

—
12
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Acf Western Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Saint Vincent De Paul Society Sacred Heart Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARMENIAN MESROBIAN SCHOOL: $340,245 · OtherARMENIAN MESROBIAN SCHOOLARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $104,150 · OtherARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INCST GARABED ARMENIAN CHURCH: $33,200 · OtherST GARABED ARMENIAN CHURCHCLUB MESROBIAN: $25,500 · Other+5 more: $51,370 · Other+5 moreACF WESTERN USA INC: $381,360 · Human ServicesACF WESTERN USA INCSaint Vincent De Paul Society Sacred Heart Society: $16,830 · Human ServicesARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $20,000 · InternationalARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $15,000 · InternationalAdvance Armenia Foundation: $12,000 · InternationalClub Mesrobian Alumni Organization: $22,750 · EducationARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $15,250 · EducationHOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC: $37,916 · Recreation & SportsArmenian Youth Federation: $21,275 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA WESTERN REGION: $12,625 · Civil Rights
Other$554,465Human Services$398,190International$47,000Education$38,000Recreation & Sports$37,916Arts & Culture$21,275Civil Rights$12,625

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 budgetACF WESTERN USA INC: $381,360 over 3y, 26% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $104,150 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC: $37,916 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetClub Mesrobian Alumni Organization: $22,750 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetArmenian Youth Federation: $21,275 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSaint Vincent De Paul Society Sacred Heart Society: $16,830 over 1y, 15% of budgetARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $15,250 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA WESTERN REGION: $12,625 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAdvance Armenia Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

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.

Acf Western USA IncThe Vahik & Alice Pet…Ucla FoundationSepetjian Family Foun…Mina & Hacob Shirvani…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Acf Western USA IncCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Acf Western USA Inc · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Sepetjian Family Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Armenian Cultural Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Armenian Cultural Foundation. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Armenian Cultural Foundation 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 19 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 $267k 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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