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Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $126,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION | $55,000 |
| ARMENIAN EYE CARE PROJECT | $35,000 |
| WOMEN SUPPORT CENTER - ARMENIA | $25,000 |
| UNITED ARMENIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| EVN NEWS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GOALS | $25,000 |
| ARMENIAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP | $25,000 |
| CIVILITAS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TUMO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA | $25,000 |
| CAMP AREV-ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA | $20,000 |
| HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY SUPPORT | $20,000 |
| C & E MERDINIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 48% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +63% since the first grant, against -63% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $205k · revenue +18%
- TATHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +76%
- ATARMENIAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +274% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- HUHAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -63%
- WSWOMEN SUPPORT CENTERone grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage
The foundation aims to improve access to quality healthcare by strengthening the healthcare system in armenia.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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…
Provide hearing aids and education
Alc seeks to secure justice for those who have suffered war crimes as a result of the unprovoked attack by azerbaijan on nagorno-karabagh during 2020 and 2023 including bringing cases, working with other not-for-profits, before the…
We help rural areas of armenia with struggling businesses and infrastructure by providing families with business support in order to help promote growth, build sustainable businesses, and enhance the quality of living for those impacted.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Teach for Armenia Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Goals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds TUMO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS SUPPORT CENTER-ARMENIA ↗
- Who funds Friends of GOALS Inc ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California ↗
- Who funds ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND 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: Jhm Charitable Foundation · George Ignatius Foundation · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · The Gaska Alliance Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Ayvazian Family Foundation · Dickranian 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 Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust 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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