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Sjs 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$185,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Sjs Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving17$1.2M0%
FY202318$1.0M6%
FY202217$990k6%
FY202118$958k11%
FY202017$1.1M0%
FY201921$1.1M0%
FY201821$973k24%
FY201722$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.6MInternational$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MReligion$906kHuman Services$740kArts & Culture$453kYouth Development$302kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fund for Armenian Relief Inc$1,145,00083%
Connecticut College$870,00080%
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America$820,0008n/a
City Harvest Inc$770,00080%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$770,00080%
The Friends of Holy Etchmiadzin Inc$600,000616%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$400,00083%
American University of Armenia Corporation$350,00081%
New York Cares Inc$330,00080%
Eva's Village Inc$315,00080%
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Sjs Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fund for Armenian Relief Inc$1,145,00083%
Connecticut College$870,00080%
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America$820,0008n/a
City Harvest Inc$770,00080%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$770,00080%
The Friends of Holy Etchmiadzin Inc$600,000616%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$400,00083%
American University of Armenia Corporation$350,00081%
New York Cares Inc$330,00080%
Eva's Village Inc$315,00080%
Center for Family Representation Inc$290,00080%
The Dreamyard Project Inc$255,00081%
New Jersey Community Development Corporation$210,00070%
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc$172,50076%
Room to Read$155,00050%
Armenian Museum of America Inc$95,00033%
St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc$80,00072%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$65,00030%
The Center for Arts Education Inc$65,00032%
Edible Schoolyard New York$55,00041%
Patrick Chege Memorial Orphanage Inc$47,0002n/a
Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc$40,00030%
Citizens Charitable Foundation$10,00010%
The Malala Fund$10,00010%
Smithsonian Institution$10,00010%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$5,00010%
St Leon Armenian Church$8501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($510k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sjs Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFund for Armenian Relief Inc: $1,145,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetConnecticut College: $870,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $770,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $770,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Friends of Holy Etchmiadzin Inc: $600,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetArmenian Assembly of America Inc: $400,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican University of Armenia Corporation: $350,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNew York Cares Inc: $330,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEva's Village Inc: $315,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Family Representation Inc: $290,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Dreamyard Project Inc: $255,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNew Jersey Community Development Corporation: $210,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc: $172,500 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetRoom to Read: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArmenian Museum of America Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSt Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Arts Education Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEdible Schoolyard New York: $55,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetJazz at Lincoln Center Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Charitable Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Malala Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: $5,000 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 24.

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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.

Nazarian Family FoundationNJ22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nazarian Family Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · The Asbed B Zakarian & Margaret Zakarian Charitable Foundation · United Armenian Charities Inc · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation · Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust · Edward & Helen Mardigian 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 Sjs Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Sjs Charitable Trust 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 Sjs Charitable Trust

How much does Sjs Charitable Trust give?
Sjs Charitable Trust reported 19 grants totaling $1,330,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sjs Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%), International (16%).
Who are Sjs Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fund for Armenian Relief Inc ($1.1M), Connecticut College ($870k), Diocese of the Armenian Church of America ($820k).
Does Sjs Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sjs Charitable Trust 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 Sjs Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nazarian Family Foundation, Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc, The Parsekian Foundation Inc.
Where is Sjs Charitable Trust based?
Sjs Charitable Trust is based in NY.

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 33 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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