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The Gaska Alliance Foundation at a glance

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The Gaska Alliance Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$945k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.2MYouth Development$333kReligion$174kInternational$128kHealth$24kEducation$5kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $945k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA$945,000
TUMO FOUNDATION$100,000
CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH O$25,000
THE WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA$25,000
TUFENKIAN PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTO$25,000
ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER)$15,000
ARMENIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA$5,000
ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND$5,000
ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND: $5k → 14%TUMO FOUNDATION: $100k → 5%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $15k → 7%ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%TUMO FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $15k → 7%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER): $10k → 14%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER): $7k → 14%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER): $6k → 14%ST MARY'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $5k → 14%ST MARY'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $5k → 14%ARMENIA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ARMENIA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%MELKONIAN GLOBAL OVERTURE: $3k → 14%ARMENIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%ARMENIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%ARMENIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $16k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $1.0M → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $945k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $30k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN ORPHANS CHRISTMAS FUND: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN AMERICAN ORPHANS CHRISTMAS FUND: $7k → 14%ARMENIA FUND INC: $5k → 14%ARMENIA FUND: $5k → 14%THE WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA: $35k → 14%TUFENKIAN PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTO: $25k → 14%CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL W PRELACY AACA: $25k → 14%CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH O: $25k → 14%THE WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%THE WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA: $19k → 14%THE WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%THE WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%HOMENETMEN (GLENDALE ARARAT CHAPTER): $51k → 14%HOMENETMEN (GLENDALE ARARAT CHAPTER): $49k → 14%HOMENETMEN (GLENDALE ARARAT CHAPTER): $25k → 14%HOMENETMEN (GLENDALE ARARAT CHAPTER): $20k → 14%HOMENETMEN (GLENDALE ARARAT CHAPTER): $11k → 14%HOMENETMEN (GLENDALE ARARAT CHAPTER): $10k → 14%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER): $15k → 14%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER): $8k → 14%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER): $5k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 13 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$2.7M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
-10%

Still filing today

54%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • AA
    Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California
    7× · 2018–2025 · $2.1M · revenue ×15
  • AW
    ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +278%
  • AE
    ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +590%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL W PRELACY AACA
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • TA
    THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
  • AA
    ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +89%
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 Sports Hall of Fame
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2
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
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
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
5
Armenian Cultural Foundation
—
6
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
7
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
8
Armenian Youth Foundation Inc

To acquaint and educate young people with armenian culture, history, and literature

Youth Development
9
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
10
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
11
Arahed Foundation Inc

The foundation aims to improve access to quality healthcare by strengthening the healthcare system in armenia.

Health
12
Research On Armenian Architecture Usa

Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Society of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $2,150,000 · Arts & CultureArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California+4 more: $44,500 · Arts & CultureHOMENETMEN (GLENDALE ARARAT CHAPTER): $166,500 · OtherHOMENETMEN (GLEN…WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA: $88,500 · OtherWESTERN PRELACY …ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY WESTERN REGION (SEPAN CHAPTER): $51,000 · OtherARMENIAN RELIEF …CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH O: $25,000 · OtherCHAMLIAN ARMENIA…TUFENKIAN PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN WESTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTO: $25,000 · OtherTUFENKIAN PRESCH…CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL W PRELACY AACA: $25,000 · OtherCHAMLIAN ARMENIA…ARMENIAN AMERICAN ORPHANS CHRISTMAS FUND INC: $17,000 · Other+2 more: $22,300 · OtherTUMO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIA FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $30,000 · InternationalARMENIA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $4,500 · InternationalMELKONIAN GLOBAL OVERTURE: $2,500 · InternationalTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $16,000 · HealthARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND AIM FUND: $5,000 · HealthARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 · HealthARMENIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY CORP: $1,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$2,194,500Other$420,300Philanthropy$160,000International$37,000Health$26,000Environment$5,000

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 budgetArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $2,150,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetTUMO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARMENIAN AMERICAN ORPHANS CHRISTMAS FUND INC: $17,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARMENIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $16,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND AIM FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetARMENIA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetARMENIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY CORP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN SOCIETY OF LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Vahik & Alice Pet…Ucla FoundationJhm Charitable Founda…Nora Tertzag Hampar C…Glendale Adventist Me…The Armen and Gloria …George Ignatius Found…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Vahik & Alice Petrossian FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust · Glendale Adventist Medical Center dba Adventist Health Glendale · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · George Ignatius Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Gaska Alliance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gaska Alliance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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.

    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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