New Jersey · Private foundation
The Hovsep 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.
- $62k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Hovsep Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $62k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $266k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $88k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $75k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $265k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constantinople Armenian Relief Society Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 75% |
| Fund for Armenian Relief Inc | $95,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Tufenkian Foundation Inc | $62,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Tekeyan Cultural Association Inc | $32,600 | 2 | 2% |
| Anca Endowment Fund Inc | $13,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Tumo Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($460k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Hovsep Foundation
- How much does The Hovsep Foundation give?
- The Hovsep Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $62,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Hovsep Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (57%), International (26%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are The Hovsep Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Constantinople Armenian Relief Society Inc ($110k), Fund for Armenian Relief Inc ($95k), Tufenkian Foundation Inc ($62k).
- Does The Hovsep Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hovsep Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hovsep Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Parsekian Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Hovsep Foundation based?
- The Hovsep Foundation is based in NJ.
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