· Private foundation
Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k62 grants · $254k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $318k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY - HOOVER INSTITUTE | $45,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH | $29,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| SAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $22,500 |
| SAN JOAQUIN COLLEGE OF LAW | $21,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ST HELEN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $16,000 |
| ST PAUL ARMENIAN CHURCH | $14,000 |
| SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $14,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - SEQUOIA COUNCIL | $11,000 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $10,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
101 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +30%
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $91k · revenue +73%- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- VCvet CSU FRESNO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UDUC DAVIS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Provide experiential learning, leadership development opportunities, student governance, child care, recreational services, and student life programs to sacramento state and community.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Public Schools and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Folklorico Y Marimba De Fresno. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 121 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds San Joaquin College of Law ↗
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLIE KEYAN ARMENIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Education and Leadership Foundation ↗
- Who funds SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Stockton Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAN DEVEREAUX MEMORIAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds DEBARTOLO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% 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.