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K Arakelian Foundation

Its FY2025 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 FY2025(still arriving)
41
Grants FY2025
46
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 46
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$895k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations K Arakelian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving41$50k12%
FY202446$60k26%
FY202345$58k0%
FY202236$49k0%
FY202132$44k0%
FY202045$54k0%
FY201946$57k4%
FY201846$59k13%
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$198kFood & Nutrition$58kHuman Services$43kHousing & Shelter$30kInternational$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kEducation$16kEnvironment$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of K Arakelian Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Abc Recovery Center$45,00090%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$21,00090%
Poverello House$18,00090%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$18,00090%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$18,00090%
Project Open Hand$16,50090%
Scripps Health$13,50090%
Community Hospitals of Central California Foundation$12,00080%
The Salvation Army$12,0009n/a
San Francisco Food Bank$10,50090%
Community Food Bank Inc$9,5007n/a
Glaucoma Research Foundation$9,50090%
California State Parks Foundation$9,40090%
American Diabetes Association$9,00090%
American Heart Association Inc$9,00090%
Kqed Inc$8,50090%
Saint Francis Foundation$8,50080%
St Labre Indian School$8,0008n/a
Pacifica Resource Center$6,00060%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$6,00060%
March of Dimes Inc$5,50080%
Easter Seals Central California$5,50080%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$4,50020%
Oxfam-America Inc$4,50060%
Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation$4,00020%
Valley Teen Ranch$4,00040%
Central California Food Bank$3,00020%
Farm Sanctuary Inc$2,00030%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$2,00020%
Ararat Armenian Cemetery Association$2,00020%
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$1,00020%
San Mateo County Health Foundation$1,00010%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$1,00010%
In Defense of Animals$1,00010%
Peninsula Open Space Trust$1,00020%
Southern Counties Rescue Inc$5001n/a
Epilepsy Foundation of America$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget K Arakelian Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAbc Recovery Center: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPoverello House: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand: $16,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetScripps Health: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Hospitals of Central California Foundation: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGlaucoma Research Foundation: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $9,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis Foundation: $8,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPacifica Resource Center: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Central California: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetValley Teen Ranch: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral California Food Bank: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFarm Sanctuary Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArarat Armenian Cemetery Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalestine Children's Relief Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIn Defense of Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Open Space Trust: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEpilepsy Foundation of America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to K Arakelian Foundation?

Find your warmest path to K Arakelian 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.

About K Arakelian Foundation

How much does K Arakelian Foundation give?
K Arakelian Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does K Arakelian Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Human Services (10%).
Who are K Arakelian Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Abc Recovery Center ($45k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($21k), Poverello House ($18k).
Does K Arakelian Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does K Arakelian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as K Arakelian Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is K Arakelian Foundation based?
K Arakelian Foundation is based in CA.

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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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