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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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$9.5MHealth$5.3MReligion$2.6MMembership Benefit$1.1MArts & Culture$303kInternational$135kHuman Services$25k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.3M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Knights of Vartan Charitable Fund$1,000
Saint Peter Armenian Apostolic Church$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%American University of Armenia: $3.4M → 10%Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts: $50k → 14%Fund for Armenian Relief Inc: $15k → 17%Armenian Assembly of America: $10k → 14%Armenian Congregational Church: $10k → 8%Armenian Missionary Assoc of America: $105k → 7%American University of Armenia: $1.6M → 10%Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts: $50k → 14%Armenian General Benevolent Union: $555k → 17%Armenian Missionary Assoc of America: $82k → 7%American University of Armenia: $1.3M → 10%Immanuel Armenian Congregational Church: $10k → 14%Armenian General Benevolent Union: $225k → 17%Armenian Missionary Association of America: $80k → 7%American University of Armenia: $1.3M → 10%Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts: $50k → 14%Armenian General Benevolent Union: $175k → 17%Armenian Missionary Association of America: $80k → 7%American University of Armenia: $1.2M → 10%Immanuel Armenian Congregational Church: $10k → 14%Armenian General Benevolent Union: $100k → 17%Armenian Missionary Assoc of America: $80k → 7%Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts: $50k → 14%Armenian General Benevolent Union: $76k → 17%St Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church: $10k → 14%California State University Northridge: $50k → 14%Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts: $15k → 14%Western Diocese of the Armenian Church: $955k → 14%Western Diocese of the Armenian Church: $357k → 14%Western Diocese of the Armenian Church: $341k → 14%Western Diocese of the Armenian Church: $195k → 14%Western Diocese of the Armenian Church: $165k → 14%Nor Or Charitable Foundation Inc: $25k → 14%Nor Or Charitable Foundation Inc: $20k → 14%Civilitas Foundation: $73k → 14%Civilitas Foundation: $30k → 14%Armenian Brotherhood Bible Church: $18k → 14%University of Southern California: $257k → 14%Armenian Brotherhood Bible Church: $14k → 14%University of Southern California: $207k → 14%Central High School Alumni Assoc: $90k → 14%Central High School Alumni Assoc: $80k → 14%Central High School Alumni Assoc: $50k → 14%Torrance Memorial Health Care Foundation: $1.6M → 14%Torrance Memorial Med Ctr Health Care Fdn: $1.5M → 14%Torrance Memorial Med Ctr Health Care Fdn: $1.0M → 14%Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Found: $550k → 14%Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Found: $525k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 21 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
9

Total granted

$18M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+40%

Still filing today

52%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AU
    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +149%
  • TM
    Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2.7M · revenue +193%
  • TC
    THE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $103k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CS
    California State University Northridge
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • AR
    ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • FF
    FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
2
Armenian Sports Hall of Fame
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3
Armenian Film Society

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
5
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
6
Research On Armenian Architecture Usa

Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.

Arts & Culture
7
Armenian Cultural Foundation
—
8
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
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9
Armenian Bar Association

Provide pro bono services and legal education and sponsor programs to promote democracy and rule of law.

—
10
Classical Armenia

The purpose of the non profit is to support classical music artistsand organisations to popularise the armenian classical music andthe classical music in armenia.

Arts & Culture
11
Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society Inc

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

Arts & Culture
12
The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Endowment Fund

Endowment or trust fund management ,support charitable activities, organization &purposes ; provide financial support for educational and cultural activities in the armenian community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Evangelical Schools of Ca Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $8,730,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $464,000 · EducationTorrance Memorial Med Ctr Health Care Fdn: $2,555,000 · OtherTorrance Memorial Med Ctr Health Care F…WESTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH: $2,012,500 · OtherWESTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCHArmenian General Benevolent Union: $1,131,000 · OtherArmenian General Benevolent UnionARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INC: $427,100 · OtherARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INCCENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC INC: $240,000 · Other+14 more: $208,500 · OtherTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation: $2,700,000 · HealthTorrance Memoria…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthARPA FOUNDATION FOR FILM MUSIC AND ARTS: $215,000 · Arts & CultureNor Or Charitable Foundation Inc: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION: $102,500 · InternationalARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $16,000 · InternationalFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC: $15,000 · InternationalKnights of Vartan Charitable Fund: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Education$9,194,000Other$6,574,100Health$2,701,000Arts & Culture$302,500International$133,500Philanthropy$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $8,730,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation: $2,700,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $464,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC INC: $240,000 over 5y, 57% of budgetARPA FOUNDATION FOR FILM MUSIC AND ARTS: $215,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetTHE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION: $102,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetNor Or Charitable Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARMENIAN EVANGELICAL SCHOOLS OF CA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAGBU MANOOGIAN-DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnights of Vartan Charitable Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND AIM FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Vartkess & Rita Balia…Nazarian Family Found…The Stephen Philibosi…Ucla FoundationMina & Hacob Shirvani…The Vahik & Alice Pet…Sami & Annie Totah Fa…California Community …Tufenkian Family Foun…George Ignatius Found…Afeyan Family Foundat…Marilyn J Degroot Cha…
Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation IncVA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization TF Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from TF Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to TF Educational Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to TF Educational Foundation 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.

    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 31 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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