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.

Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable

Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable at a glance

· Private foundation

Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$571k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$45k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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

02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k62 grants · $254k
$10k–50k15 grants · $318k

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - HOOVER INSTITUTE	$45,000
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY	$30,000
PEPPERDINE 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
SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS	$14,000
ST PAUL ARMENIAN CHURCH	$14,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$12,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - SEQUOIA COUNCIL	$11,000
SEMPER FI FUND	$10,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bertha and John Garabedian Charitablelessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 101 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$1.5M

$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+74%

Still filing today

51%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

PU
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +30%
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION
2× · 2020–2021 · $91k · revenue +73%
SF
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +56%

Funded once

VC
vet CSU FRESNO FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $5k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $5k
UD
UC DAVIS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
one grant, 2023 · $3k

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.

California College of the Arts

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…

Education

California State University Alumni Association

Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

Education

University of Southern California

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…

Education

Association of California School Administrators

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.

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President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education

California State University Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

University of the Pacific

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.

Education

Pitzer College

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.…

Education

The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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Associated Students of California State University Sacramento

Provide experiential learning, leadership development opportunities, student governance, child care, recreational services, and student life programs to sacramento state and community.

Education

The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education

California Institute of Integral Studies

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Public Schools; 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.

05the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 121 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/62

Grantees still filing

45/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$966,250Education$544,750Health$100,000International$42,750Philanthropy$30,000Human Services$30,000Youth Development$28,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home