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Dickranian Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0167% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$164kReligion$163kPhilanthropy$36kScience & Tech$35kInternational$31kEducation$30kPublic Benefit$10kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$985k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGBU Merdinian School$25,000
Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center$15,000
Armenian National Committee of America$10,000
Western Diocese Armenian Church$10,000
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund$10,000
Armenian Assembly of America$10,000
Paros Foundation$5,000
Creative Armenia$5,000
TUMO Center for Creative Technologies$5,000
FAST Foundation of Armenian Science Tech$5,000
ACF Kitsinian Youth Center$5,000
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Armenian Tree Project: $5k → 8%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA: $5k → 10%St Nerses Seminary Western Diocese: $10k → 6%FAST - Found for Armenian Sci&Tech: $30k → 10%Armenian National Committee of America: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROS: $15k → 7%PAROS FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%CREATIVE ARMENIA: $5k → 14%FAST: $5k → 10%Armenian Assembly of America: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROS: $12k → 7%PAROS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%Creative Armenia: $5k → 14%FAST Foundation of Armenian Science Tech: $5k → 10%Armenian National Committee: $5k → 14%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROS: $10k → 7%PAROS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CREATIVE ARMENIA: $5k → 14%FAST: $5k → 10%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROS: $5k → 7%PAROS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PAROS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%Paros Foundation: $5k → 10%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $25k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $25k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $15k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $5k → 14%WOMEN'S WELLNESS CENTER: $5k → 14%AGBU Merdinian School: $25k → 14%WESTERN DIOCESE CHURCH: $90k → 14%WESTERN DIOCESE CHURCH: $30k → 14%WESTERN DIOCESE CAMP: $25k → 14%WESTERN DIOCESE CAMP: $25k → 14%WESTERN DIOCESE CAMP: $25k → 14%WESTERN DIOCESE CAMP: $25k → 14%WESTERN DIOCESE CHURCH: $20k → 14%Western Diocese Armenian Church: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY: $8k → 14%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY: $5k → 14%Armenian Film Sociate: $5k → 14%ACF Kitsinian Youth Center: $5k → 14%Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center: $15k → 14%ANC: $8k → 14%ANC: $8k → 14%Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund: $10k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$569k · 19 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +126% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$569k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
0%

Still filing today

32%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
InternationalArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AA
    Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California
    7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue ×15
  • TP
    THE PAROS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2026 · $36k · revenue +75%
  • CA
    CREATIVE ARMENIA
    4× · 2023–2026 · $18k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FF
    FAST - Found for Armenian Sci&Tech
    one grant, 2025 · $30k
  • SN
    St Nerses Seminary Western Diocese
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
  • AU
    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -16%
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 Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
2
Armenian Sports Hall of Fame
—
3
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
4
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
5
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
6
Armenian Cultural Foundation
—
7
Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center Inc

To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events

Arts & Culture
8
The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Armenian International Women's Associati

To unite armenian women and women of armenian descent worldwide and to address critical issues facing armenian women everywhere and to raise funds to accomplish these objectives.

International
10
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
11
Armenian National Institute Inc

To promote understanding of the armenian genocide through research, analysis, publication, and public forums; to collect and organize documentation attesting to and preserving the memory of the armenian genocide; and to increase public…

International
12
Research On Armenian Architecture Usa

Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.

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 House of Hope. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 42 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN DIOCESE CHURCH: $142,500 · OtherWESTERN DIOCESE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $102,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAST - Found for Armenian Sci&Tech: $30,000 · OtherFAST - Found for Armenian Sci&TechIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherAGBU Merdinian School: $25,000 · Other+25 more: $142,500 · Other+25 moreArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $95,000 · Arts & CultureArmenian America…ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ARMENIA: $18,000 · InternationalCREATIVE …ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 · InternationalARMENIAN …ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $11,000 · InternationalARMENIAN …ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $10,000 · InternationalARMENIAN …THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $2,500 · InternationalTHE PAROS FOUNDATION: $35,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$510,000Arts & Culture$106,000International$59,000Philanthropy$35,500Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $95,000 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetTHE PAROS FOUNDATION: $35,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCREATIVE ARMENIA: $18,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH2PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Armenian Rose Float Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

  • Who funds Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California ↗
  • Who funds THE PAROS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE ARMENIA ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC ↗
  • Who funds PATH2PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds American Armenian Rose Float Association Inc ↗

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.

Ucla FoundationThe Parsekian Foundat…Tufenkian Family Foun…Jhm Charitable Founda…Sami & Annie Totah Fa…Nora Tertzag Hampar C…Bedrosian FoundationCherchian Family Foun…Vartkess & Rita Balia…Mina & Hacob Shirvani…John Mirak FoundationNazarian Family Found…
Ucla FoundationCA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ucla Foundation · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Tufenkian Family Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust · Bedrosian Foundation · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · John Mirak Foundation · Nazarian Family 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 Dickranian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dickranian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dickranian Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dickranian 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 42 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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