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· Private foundation
THE EDWARD S AND ELEONORE M
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$20k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
3
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE EDWARD S AND ELEONORE M’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$700
Median grant
3
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
- COPE$6,000
- AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA$5,000
- NORCAL SENIOR SERVICES$3,992
- SOCIETY THEATRE COLLECTIVE INC$2,000
- HIGHWAY 29 MEDIA$1,000
- ASLA ARMENIAN SOCIETY OF LA$700
- GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTIONS$500
- SPARK MOVEMENT COLLECTIVE$250
- SHEPHERD'S GATE$125
- MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS$100
- BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY$100
02The need
03
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.
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Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$117k · 36 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
36
63
Total granted
$117k
$35k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+42%
+42%
Still filing today
25%
11%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHealthReligionOther
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 ARMENIA8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +28%
- BABAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY8× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +47%
- COCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND3× · 2021–2023 · $750 · revenue +248%
Funded once
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BALLETone grant, 2020 · $12k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO OPERAone grant, 2020 · $6k
- KAKZV ARMENIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
Education
2
Augustana College
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Education
3
California College of the Arts
To educate students of diverse backgrounds in areas of fine arts, architecture, design, & writing.
Education
4
Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc
Armenian Church Endowment Fund's ("ACEF") mission is to provide professional asset management services to the parishes and related entities of the Diocese of the Armenian Church.
Religion
5
Arcadia University
Arcadia university provides a distinctively global, integrative, and personal learning experience for intellectually curious undergraduate and graduate students in preparation for a life of scholarship, service, and professional…
Education
6
The American Institute of Architects
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
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7
The American College of Greece
The american college of greece is an independent, not for profit, (continued on schedule o)
International
8
Armenian National Committee of America
The anca-wr works in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the western united states to actively advance the concerns of the armenian american community on a range of issues. these issues include…
Civil Rights
9
Armenian Assembly of America Inc
Through non-partisan advocacy, research and education promotes public understanding and greater awareness of armenian-american issues.
International
10
Harvey Mudd College
HMC is one of the premier math, science and engineering liberal arts colleges in the nation.
Education
11
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst
The caia association is a global credentialing body for alternative investments, representing professionals in over 95 countries. it upholds high ethical standards, offers the chartered alternative investment analyst designation, and…
Community Improvement
12
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc
Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American University of Armenia and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
11%
14,043/124,170
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.
04the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$103,278Education$41,100Religion$4,250Arts & Culture$4,150International$1,050Philanthropy$500Health$450
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 ↗
- Who funds CALVARY ARMENIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY THEATRE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND ↗
- Who funds HIVELY ↗
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.
The Parsekian Foundation IncMA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation THE EDWARD S AND ELEONORE M 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +55% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 680358441 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Edward S and Eleonore M through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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