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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF | $185,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $130,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN | $130,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $110,000 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NEW JERSEY | $100,000 |
| ARMENIA TREE PROJECT | $50,000 |
| ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK CARES | $50,000 |
| DREAMYARD PROJECT INC | $40,000 |
| EVA'S VILLAGE | $40,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 6 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 FY2024, 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
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $870k · revenue +23%
CITY HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $770k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPAone grant, 2017 · $50k
- NNNORTHERN NJ COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CCCITIZENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -28%
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.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizens Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 33 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 FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING 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: 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
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 Sjs 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
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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