· Private foundation
Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND | $125,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CATHOLIC LIBERAL EDUCATION | $80,000 |
| ST PAUL STREET EVANGELISM | $80,000 |
| JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RIGHTS | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC CENTERFOCUS | $25,000 |
| BLOOMINGTON SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $20,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER | $17,500 |
| INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE | $15,000 |
| FRANCISCAN CENTER OF FORT WAYNE | $10,000 |
| FORT WAYNE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $7,500 |
| CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER CHATTNOOGA | $6,000 |
| FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| HANNAH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 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
- IRINDIANA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +218% · 63% of their budget
- TITHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES8× · 2018–2025 · $213k · revenue +188%
- JEJM EDUCATIONAL GROUP3× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH THE PROTECTOR FDN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +74%
- SBSAINT BENEDICT CLASSICAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $51k
- TCTHE CHARLOTTE LOZIER INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $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 educate the public about abortion
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
The american civil liberties union of indiana seeks to promote, protect, and defend the rights, liberties, and freedoms guaranteed to all people in our state by the united states and indiana constitutions.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Right to Life Educational Trust Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Institute On Religion and Public Life Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 49 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 INDIANA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds JM EDUCATIONAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH THE PROTECTOR FDN INC ↗
- Who funds American Spectator Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Humane Society for Hamilton County ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET INC ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS 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: Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Curry Family Foundation Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · Freeman-Spicer Charities · United Way of South Central Indiana · Asante Foundation Inc · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc
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 Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc 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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