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George Ignatius Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$456kReligion$198kArts & Culture$194kInternational$140kHuman Services$60kCivil Rights$51kPhilanthropy$44kCrime & Legal$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Armenian American Museum$101,400
United Armenian Congregational Chur$20,000
Western Diocese Stewardship Fund$11,200
Merdinian School$10,000
Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High 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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Camp Arev: $10k → 10%VISTA PLAYERS: $13k → 14%AMIDEAST: $25k → 14%Camp Arev: $20k → 8%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 7%Friends Of Armenia: $25k → 14%Camp Arev: $10k → 8%St Peter Armenian Church: $10k → 14%ORGANIZATION OF ISTANBUL ARMENIANS: $15k → 14%Organization For Istanbul Armenians: $10k → 14%Organization of Istanbul Armenians: $10k → 14%Organization of Istanbul Armenians: $10k → 14%Western Diocese of the Armenian Chu: $15k → 14%Western Diocese Hye Camp: $15k → 14%Armenian Church Western Diocese: $11k → 14%Armenian Church Western Diocese: $10k → 14%United Armenian Congregational Chur: $20k → 14%United Armenian Congregational Chur: $20k → 14%United Armenian Congregational Chur: $11k → 14%USC Gould School of Law: $100k → 14%USC Gould School of Law: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $38k → 14%USC Gould School of Law: $25k → 14%USC Gould School of Law: $25k → 14%USC Gould School of Law: $25k → 14%University of Southern California: $10k → 14%University of Southern California: $10k → 14%Western Diocese Stewardship Fund: $11k → 14%Armenian American Museum: $101k → 14%Mashdots College: $25k → 14%Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High School: $25k → 14%Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High School: $20k → 14%Ferrahian Holy Martyrs High School: $13k → 14%ARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%HOLY MARTYRS FERRAHIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 14%Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High School: $10k → 14%Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High School: $10k → 14%FERRAHIAN HOLY MARTYRS HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 14%Armenian National Committee of Amer: $18k → 14%ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $15k → 14%ANCA-WR Karabian Fellowship: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%Aid Beyond Borders: $30k → 14%ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - WESTERN REGION: $10k → 14%Merdinian School: $10k → 14%Aid Beyond Borders: $25k → 14%Merdinian School: $10k → 14%Aid Beyond Borders: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
NJ
CA
AZ
NC
DC
AL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$855k · 32 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
43

Total granted

$855k
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-30%

Still filing today

44%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationReligionOther
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

  • OO
    Organization of Istanbul Armenians
    4× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +59%
  • MC
    Mashdots College
    2× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +38%
  • AB
    ARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +240%

Funded once

  • A
    AMIDEAST
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -30%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ARMENIA
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -45%
  • AN
    ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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 Sports Hall of Fame
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2
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
3
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
4
Armenian Film Society

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
6
Research On Armenian Architecture Usa

Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.

Arts & Culture
7
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
8
Armenian Cultural Foundation
—
9
Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center Inc

To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events

Arts & Culture
10
Armenian Educational Foundation

Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage

Arts & Culture
11
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
12
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
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 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC Gould School of Law: $225,000 · OtherUSC Gould School of LawHoly Martyrs Ferrahian High School: $75,000 · OtherHoly Martyrs Ferrahian High SchoolAid Beyond Borders Inc: $72,500 · OtherAid Beyond Borders IncUNITED ARMENIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $57,000 · OtherUNITED ARMENIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · Other+55 more: $435,025 · Other+55 moreArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $101,400 · Arts & CultureArmenian America…Organization of Istanbul Armenians: $45,000 · Arts & CultureOrganization of …ARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN FILM FO…ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN NATIONA…ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureAMIDEAST: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ARMENIA: $25,000 · InternationalHouse of Hope Mer Hooys Inc: $15,000 · InternationalARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $12,500 · International+3 more: $2,250 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $58,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · HealthTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $4,500 · HealthPOMEGRANATE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyONE ARMENIA INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ST THOMAS MORE SOCIETY OF LOS ANGELES: $1,250 · ReligionCIVIL AIR PATROL INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$904,525Arts & Culture$178,900International$79,750Education$62,000Health$14,500Philanthropy$8,500Religion$1,250Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $101,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAid Beyond Borders Inc: $72,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $58,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrganization of Istanbul Armenians: $45,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMashdots College: $26,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetAMIDEAST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARMENIA: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION: $19,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHouse of Hope Mer Hooys Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOMEGRANATE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetARMENIAN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY: $5,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ARMENIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ST THOMAS MORE SOCIETY OF LOS ANGELES: $1,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetARMENIA ARTSAKH FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIL AIR PATROL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS ON CHILDREN NOW INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 AMIDEAST ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ARMENIA ↗
  • 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 ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION ↗
  • Who funds ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POMEGRANATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

Jhm Charitable Founda…Ucla FoundationSami & Annie Totah Fa…The Armen and Gloria …The Stephen Philibosi…Ayvazian Family Found…Nora Tertzag Hampar C…Mina & Hacob Shirvani…The Vahik & Alice Pet…Nazarian Family Found…Kasper and Siroon Hov…TF Educational Founda…
Jhm Charitable FoundationCA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 George Ignatius Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Ignatius Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%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
    2get no government money at all
    3report 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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    How do I get to George Ignatius Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to George Ignatius 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 81 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.

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