· Private foundation
The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA | $100,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| ST GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CH | $50,000 |
| ARMENIAN SISTERS ACADEMY | $44,500 |
| GROUNDS FOR SCULTPURE | $30,000 |
| ARMENIAN CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND INC | $30,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $23,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| THERAPISTS FOR AMERICA INC | $17,500 |
| PERKINS CENTER FOR ARTS | $10,000 |
| JOSEPH LACROCE FOUNDATION | $4,600 |
| JAWS YOUTH FUND INC | $2,000 |
| ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- TATHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT4× · 2021–2025 · $374k · revenue +76%
- JLJOSEPH LACROCE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +150%
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $183k
- CFCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NATURAL DISCOVERIESone grant, 2019 · $170k
- VFVIRTUA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $150k
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.
Serves the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seeks to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Helps children, elderly and families in armenia with basic humanitarian and spiritual needs.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage
Provide cultural and educational services to the armenian community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Belles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 49 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 THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Armenian Heritage Foundation of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH LACROCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Frontline Therapists ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR ARMENIA ↗
- Who funds Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds PERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAHMAN USA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE OF MOORESTOWN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds JAWS YOUTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH FUND INC ↗
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: Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Avedisian 575 Foundation Inc · Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Ayvazian Family Foundation · The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation · Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Zartarian Foundation · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation
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 The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Perkins Center for the Arts — 24% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hovnanian School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.