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Ayvazian Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ayvazian Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$112kInternational$29kHealth$13kArts & Culture$10kEducation$5kPublic Benefit$1kReligion$200Other$0
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$551k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARMENIA TREE PROJECT$2,000
THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT$2,000
ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND$1,000
ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA$200
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARMENIA TREE PROJECT: $10k → 8%SOCIETY OF ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF: $5k → 6%THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $1k → 10%ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES INC: $50k → 14%ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND: $1k → 14%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $200 → 7%ARMENIA TREE PROJECT: $5k → 8%ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES INC: $50k → 14%ARMENIA TREE PROJECT: $2k → 8%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10k → 14%ARMENIA TREE PROJECT: $1k → 8%THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $10k → 14%THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $2k → 14%ARMENIA FUND INC: $6k → 14%ANC WESTERN REGION: $5k → 14%ARMENIAN PRELACY WESTERN REGION: $5k → 14%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $12k → 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 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
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
3
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
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
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
6
Armenian Educational Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
7
Armenian Relief & Development Association

Helps children, elderly and families in armenia with basic humanitarian and spiritual needs.

International
8
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc
International
9
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Armenian Cultural & Educational Center Inc

Provide cultural and educational services to the armenian community

Arts & Culture
12
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
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 Armenia Fund 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 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · HealthARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELESTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $13,000 · HealthTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECTARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $12,000 · OtherARMENIAN RELIE…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual gra…ARMENIAN PRELACY WESTERN REGION: $5,000 · OtherARMENIAN PRELA…+1 more: $200 · OtherARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $18,000 · InternationalARMENIAN ASS…ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $1,000 · InternationalARMENIA FUND INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropySOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF: $5,000 · PhilanthropyArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$113,000Other$22,200International$19,000Philanthropy$11,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

George Ignatius Found…Ucla FoundationSarkisian FoundationNora Tertzag Hampar C…Levon & Claudia Nazar…Armenia Empyrean Foun…The Jirair S and Eliz…The Armen and Gloria …The Vahik & Alice Pet…Jhm Charitable Founda…Sami & Annie Totah Fa…The Ayco Charitable F…
George Ignatius FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Ignatius Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Sarkisian Foundation · Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Ayvazian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ayvazian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ayvazian Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ayvazian Family 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 11 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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