· Public charity
Armenian General Benevolent Union
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $6,064,532 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,061,998 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,997,466 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUMO FOUNDATION | $3,566,666 |
| AGBU MANOOGIAN-DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL CANOGA PARKCA | $1,307,874 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORP | $621,958 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA | $257,172 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER | $110,036 |
| TUMO FOUNDATION | $83,334 |
| AMVETS | $71,492 |
| OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| AABC CHANNEL 384 | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $7.2M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $6.5M to organizations and $732k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CULTURAL · EDUCATIONAL · HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: CULTURAL · EDUCATIONAL · HUMANITARIAN
Stated purpose: CULTURAL · EDUCATIONAL
Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL
Stated purpose: CULTURAL · EDUCATIONAL
Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AVAGBU VATCHE AND TAMAR MANOUKIAN HIGH SCH CARE OF SIROON DERDERIAN5× · 2017–2021 · $5.1M · revenue +28% · 60% of their budget
- AMAGBU MANOOGIAN-DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +137%
- NINVAK INC2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +52% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +58%
- SVSILICON VALLEY IGNITEone grant, 2020 · $82k
- TATexas A&M Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $58k · revenue +74%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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…
Further education
To promote understanding of the armenian genocide through research, analysis, publication, and public forums; to collect and organize documentation attesting to and preserving the memory of the armenian genocide; and to increase public…
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
Humans are endowed with innate creative abilities; we have formed civilizations and societies, framed laws, built architectural marvels and created cultural masterpieces. it is our creative abilities that have allowed us to produce…
The basic premise of the organization is to nurture, safeguard and promote the armenian language, cultural values, traditions and education throughout the armenian diaspora and armenia
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Teach for Armenia Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Watche and Tamar Manoukian Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 49% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TUMO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGBU VATCHE AND TAMAR MANOUKIAN HIGH SCH CARE OF SIROON DERDERIAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AGBU MANOOGIAN-DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARMENIA ↗
- Who funds AMVETS Post 41 ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE ARAGATS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NVAK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEAM ARMENIA BASKETBALL ↗
- Who funds HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEAR EAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSE & ALEX PILIBOS PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EASTWEST STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds YERAZART INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Film Office ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF ARMENIANS INC ↗
- Who funds POMEGRANATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Saint Joseph University Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jhm Charitable Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Ucla Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · The James H and Marta T Batmasian Family Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Fesjian Foundation · Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust · Galadjian Family Foundation · Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Armenian General Benevolent Union funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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