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Avedisian 575 Foundation Inc at a glance

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Avedisian 575 Foundation Inc

The entity supports educational and religious programs at recognized section 501(c)(3) exempt entities.

$6.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5.0M
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$5.3MInternational$1.0MEducation$175kHealth$155kCivil Rights$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $5,455,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,478,665 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,023,665 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–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.0M
$130,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH$5,000,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA$150,000
THE MAX FOUNDATION$130,000
ARMENIAN CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND$100,000
DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA - EASTERN$50,000
ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 7%SAINT JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH: $5.0M → 8%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA: $150k → 14%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA - EASTERN: $160k → 17%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 14%THE MAX FOUNDATION: $130k → 9%WE ARE OUR MOUNTAINS FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $13k → 7%AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 8%ARMENIAN CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND: $100k → 17%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF HRANT DINK INC: $25k → 8%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA - EASTERN: $50k → 17%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA - EASTERN: $25k → 17%CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC: $10k → 17%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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 3 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$278k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+163%

Still filing today

33%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEducationReligionArts & 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

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $235k
  • AM
    ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $23k
  • AA
    ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • AH
    AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +274%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HRANT DINK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +31% · 29% of their budget
  • WA
    WE ARE OUR MOUNTAINS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
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2
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
3
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc

Founded in 1955, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is an independent non-profit membership organization, and one of the world's leading Armenian Studies centers and rare book libraries. NAASR advances…

—
4
Armenian International Medical Fund Aim Fund

Create and maintain innovative health care programs in armenia, performing cochlear implants and bone anchored aid (baha) surgeries, newborn hearing screening and training future otologists in armenia.

Health
5
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc
International
6
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
7
Anna Astvatsaturian Foundation

The Mission of the Anna Astvatsaturian Foundation is to advance humanitarian, development, cultural, environmental ,and educational initiatives in Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora, and partnering with trusted organizations to achieve the…

International
8
Advance Armenia Foundation

Volunteer-led medical and technological mission to areas of Armenia under-served and promote economic and cultural ties between United States and Armenia

International
9
Armenian Relief Society of Eastern Usa Inc

Serves the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seeks to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation.

International
10
Armenian Educational Foundation

Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage

Arts & Culture
11
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
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12
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hrant Dink Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH: $5,000,000 · OtherST JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCHDIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $235,000 · Other+2 more: $48,450 · OtherAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureAURORA HUMANITAR…THE MAX FOUNDATION: $130,000 · HealthArmenian American Medical Association: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $150,000 · EducationArmenian Church Endowment Fund Inc: $100,000 · ReligionARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 · InternationalCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF HRANT DINK INC: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$5,283,450Arts & Culture$1,000,000Health$155,000Education$150,000Religion$100,000International$30,000Civil Rights$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MAX FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetArmenian Church Endowment Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF HRANT DINK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetArmenian American Medical Association: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Armenia Empyrean Foun…Afeyan Family Foundat…John Mirak FoundationLevon & Claudia Nazar…The Jirair S and Eliz…Vartkess & Rita Balia…The Parsekian Foundat…Charles Mosesian Fami…Mina & Hacob Shirvani…Ara & Edma Dumanian F…Nazarian Family Found…The Stephen Philibosi…
Armenia Empyrean FoundationDE20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Armenia Empyrean Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian 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 Avedisian 575 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avedisian 575 Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to Avedisian 575 Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Avedisian 575 Foundation 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 12 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.

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