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TF Educational Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American University of Armenia | $1,310,000 |
| Torrance Memorial Med Ctr Health Care Fdn | $1,030,000 |
| Western Diocese of the Armenian Church | $955,000 |
| Armenian General Benevolent Union | $175,000 |
| Armenian Missionary Association of America | $80,000 |
| Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts | $15,000 |
| Central High School Alumni Association | $10,000 |
| United Armenian congregational Church | $6,000 |
| Nor Or Charitable Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| Lark Musical Society | $2,500 |
| Saint Peter Armenian Apostolic Church | $1,000 |
| Knights of Vartan Charitable Fund | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 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 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
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +149%
- TMTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation3× · 2020–2022 · $2.7M · revenue +193%
- TCTHE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $103k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CSCalifornia State University Northridgeone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ARARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +12%
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +40%
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.
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…
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Education about armenia & caucasu region
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
Provide pro bono services and legal education and sponsor programs to promote democracy and rule of law.
The purpose of the non profit is to support classical music artistsand organisations to popularise the armenian classical music andthe classical music in armenia.
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
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 Evangelical Schools of Ca Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds ARPA FOUNDATION FOR FILM MUSIC AND ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nor Or Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL SCHOOLS OF CA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AGBU MANOOGIAN-DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Knights of Vartan Charitable Fund ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND AIM FUND ↗
- Who funds Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School ↗
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: Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · Nazarian Family Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Tufenkian Family Foundation · George Ignatius Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Marilyn J Degroot Charitable Trust
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 TF Educational 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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