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Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$571k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
77
Grants FY2024
78
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
71 to 79
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving75$506k16%
FY202378$224k5%
FY202279$254k33%
FY202172$210k8%
FY202071$328kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$887kArts & Culture$142kReligion$129kRecreation & Sports$122kHuman Services$105kHealth$84kYouth Development$66kFood & Nutrition$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
NJ
CA
UT
MO
MD
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brigham Young University$95,0005n/a
Pepperdine University$95,00050%
California State University Fresno Foundation$91,00020%
San Joaquin College of Law$60,50050%
St Paul Armenian Church$45,5005n/a
Fresno Pacific University$42,00050%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$41,50050%
Valley Children's Hospital$36,50050%
Summit Public Schools$32,50050%
Selma Unified School District$25,5005n/a
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All grantees of Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brigham Young University$95,0005n/a
Pepperdine University$95,00050%
California State University Fresno Foundation$91,00020%
San Joaquin College of Law$60,50050%
St Paul Armenian Church$45,5005n/a
Fresno Pacific University$42,00050%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$41,50050%
Valley Children's Hospital$36,50050%
Summit Public Schools$32,50050%
Selma Unified School District$25,5005n/a
Armenian Technology Group Inc$24,750541%
Charlie Keyan Armenian Community School$19,00040%
David Horowitz Freedom Center$17,50030%
Armenia Fund Inc$17,00041%
The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy$16,50050%
Prager University Foundation$15,50030%
Pacific Legal Foundation$13,00050%
Education and Leadership Foundation$13,00040%
Children's Home of Stockton Inc$12,00050%
Salesian Boys and Girls Club$12,00040%
Duke University$11,75040%
Dan Devereaux Memorial Trust Inc$11,50046%
Hinds Hospice$11,00050%
Friends of Roosevelt School of the Arts$10,000516%
Debartolo Family Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Thomas Aquinas College$10,00050%
California Policy Center$10,00030%
House of Hope Mer Hooys Inc$10,00051%
Hume Lake Charter School$9,50041%
Central Sierra Historical Society and Museum$9,50031%
Stone Soup Fresno$9,00050%
Community Hospitals of Central California Foundation$8,50040%
Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf$8,00050%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc$8,00050%
Cencal Youth Sports$8,00032%
Westside Youth Inc$8,00042%
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies$7,50050%
White Ash Broadcasting Inc$7,50040%
The California Home for the Aged Inc Dba California Armenian Home$7,50010%
Sherman Elementary PTA$7,00022%
Fresno Chess Foundation$6,5005n/a
Valley Public Television Inc$6,50040%
San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust$6,50030%
Shinzen Friendship Garden Inc$6,00051%
Down Syndrome Association of Central California$6,00013%
Trauma Intervention Programs Inc$5,0003n/a
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization$4,50041%
Japanese American Citizens League$4,0003n/a
Sierra Foothill Conservancy$4,00050%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc$4,00030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$3,50050%
Central California Adaptive Sports Center$3,50011%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties$3,50020%
Madera County Arts Council$3,50020%
Alfred University$3,50050%
Youth Orchestras of Fresno$3,00050%
Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy$3,00010%
Ballet Folklorico y Marimba de Fresno$3,00023%
Community Health Systems Inc$2,50010%
San Joaquin Valley Town Hall$2,00040%
Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center$2,00010%
Fresno City and County Historical Society$2,00030%
St Johns Episcopal Church$1,5001n/a
Sierra Oaks Senior Citizens Association$1,00022%
The Fresno Philharmonic Association$1,00020%
United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties$1,00010%
Warrior Canine Connection Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($521k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPepperdine University: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Foundation: $91,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Joaquin College of Law: $60,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFresno Pacific University: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $41,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetValley Children's Hospital: $36,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Public Schools: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArmenian Technology Group Inc: $24,750 over 5y, 41% of budgetCharlie Keyan Armenian Community School: $19,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDavid Horowitz Freedom Center: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArmenia Fund Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy: $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEducation and Leadership Foundation: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Home of Stockton Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSalesian Boys and Girls Club: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $11,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDan Devereaux Memorial Trust Inc: $11,500 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetHinds Hospice: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Roosevelt School of the Arts: $10,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetDebartolo Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThomas Aquinas College: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Policy Center: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHouse of Hope Mer Hooys Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHume Lake Charter School: $9,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCentral Sierra Historical Society and Museum: $9,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetStone Soup Fresno: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Hospitals of Central California Foundation: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCencal Youth Sports: $8,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWestside Youth Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe California Home for the Aged Inc Dba California Armenian Home: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSherman Elementary PTA: $7,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetValley Public Television Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetShinzen Friendship Garden Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDown Syndrome Association of Central California: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAlexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization: $4,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSierra Foothill Conservancy: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral California Adaptive Sports Center: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMadera County Arts Council: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 60.

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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.

Leon S Peters FoundationCA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leon S Peters Foundation · Educational Employees Credit Union · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The James Irvine Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · Briscoe Family Foundation · Central California Food Bank · Resnick Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · Bonner Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Fresno 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.

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About Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable

How much does Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable give?
Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable reported 77 grants totaling $571,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 79 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Arts & Culture (8%), Religion (7%).
Who are Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Brigham Young University ($95k), Pepperdine University ($95k), California State University Fresno Foundation ($91k).
Does Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leon S Peters Foundation, Educational Employees Credit Union, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Where is Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable based?
Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable is based in TX.

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 121 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 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 but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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