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Gullabi Gulbenkian Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$99kArts & Culture$79kReligion$52kInternational$45kHealth$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEnvironment$60Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL$5,000
VITAS COMMUNITY CONNECTION$1,000
ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSI$500
Individual grant recipient$500
ST NICHOLAS MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH$500
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP HAIASAN: $20k → 7%TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%GUILIGIAN BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%ST GREGORY ARMENIAN: $25k → 9%ANI BULKHIAN: $23k → 11%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $30k → 13%AGBU CAMP NUBAR: $10k → 15%THE ARMENIAN PRELACY: $5k → 17%GARO ANDORIAN: $10k → 11%CULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%HERMON TELYAN: $5k → 9%VITAS COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $1k → 16%ACCO-NJ: $20k → 6%ST THOMAS ARMENIAN CHURCH: $500 → 7%ARDZAGANG ARM TV: $4k → 12%VOICE OF ARMENIANS TV NY: $5k → 14%CAMP HAIASAN: $8k → 7%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%GUILIGIAN BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%ST GREGORY ARMENIAN: $25k → 9%ST VARTAN CAMP: $10k → 11%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 13%AGBU CAMP NUBAR: $3k → 15%ST NICHOLAS MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $500 → 11%CULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%CITY CARING LLC: $60 → 9%TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $3k → 7%VOICE OF ARMENIANS TV NY: $3k → 14%ST GREGORY ARMENIAN: $8k → 9%GAREN BALKHIAN: $4k → 11%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 13%ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSI: $500 → 9%VOICE OF ARMENIANS TV NY: $2k → 14%ST GREGORY CHURCH: $6k → 9%CASH FOR THE GUARD: $4k → 11%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 13%TEKAYAN CULTURAL SOCIETY: $7k → 9%VICAR WEEKLY: $500 → 14%ST GREGORY ARMENIAN: $3k → 9%ST VARTAN CAMP: $3k → 11%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 13%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 6 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$209k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-47%
+77%

Still filing today

50%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k
  • CI
    CULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue -47% · 31% of their budget
  • HM
    HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · OtherHOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INCIndividual grant recipient: $27,830 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGUILIGUIAN BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $27,000 · OtherGUILIGUIAN BENEVOLENT FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $23,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALEPPO COMPATRIOTIC CHARITABLE ORG: $15,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,700 · Other+15 more: $51,885 · Other+15 moreCULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL IMPACT FOUN…TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEKEYAN CULTURAL ASS…VOICE OF ARMENIANS INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureVOICE OF ARMENIANS I…BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 · InternationalVITAS COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $1,000 · Health
Other$300,665Arts & Culture$69,000International$2,000Health$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 budgetCULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetHOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVOICE OF ARMENIANS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVITAS COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $1,000 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 CULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VOICE OF ARMENIANS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds VITAS COMMUNITY CONNECTION ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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

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Find your warmest path to Gullabi Gulbenkian Foundation Inc 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 29 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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