· Private foundation
Kasper and Siroon Hovannisian Family Cultural Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of KASPER AND SIROON HOVANNISIAN FAMILY CULTURAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $250k+1 grant · $357k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN CTR FOR NAT'L INT'L STUDIE | $357,385 |
| ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OORRAN7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +145%
- AEARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +590%
- ACARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- AHARARAT HOMEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AHARTSAKH HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CMCLUB MESROBIANone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
The purpose of the non profit is to support classical music artistsand organisations to popularise the armenian classical music andthe classical music in armenia.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
The basic premise of the organization is to nurture, safeguard and promote the armenian language, cultural values, traditions and education throughout the armenian diaspora and armenia
To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events
Endowment or trust fund management ,support charitable activities, organization &purposes ; provide financial support for educational and cultural activities in the armenian community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Armenian Monument Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 ORRAN ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARMENIA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Armenian Monument Council Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Organization of Istanbul Armenians ↗
- Who funds HOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC ↗
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: The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · George Ignatius Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Kazarian Donations Trust · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kasper and Siroon Hovannisian Family Cultural 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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