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George Ignatius Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Armenian American Museum | $101,400 |
| United Armenian Congregational Chur | $20,000 |
| Western Diocese Stewardship Fund | $11,200 |
| Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High School | $10,000 |
| Merdinian School | $10,000 |
| Ararat Home of Los Angeles Westside | $5,000 |
| Armenian Bar Association | $5,000 |
| Armenian Relief Society of Western | $5,000 |
| Ladies Guild of the Western Diocese | $1,500 |
| USC Alumni Association | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- OOOrganization of Istanbul Armenians4× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +59%
- MCMashdots College2× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +38%
- ABARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ARMENIAone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -45%
- ANARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $25k
- AAMIDEASTone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -23%
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.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Further education
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…
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events
Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mashdots College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 81 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 Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California ↗
- Who funds Aid Beyond Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Organization of Istanbul Armenians ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mashdots College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARMENIA ↗
- Who funds AMIDEAST ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds House of Hope Mer Hooys Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POMEGRANATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Jhm Charitable Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · Ayvazian Family Foundation · Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Kasper and Siroon Hovannisian Family Cultural Foundation · TF Educational 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 George Ignatius Foundation 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.
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.
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