· Private foundation
The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of THE SARKIS AND RUTH BEDEVIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’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 $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,500 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN | $42,000 |
| ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY | $13,000 |
| ST GREGORY ARMENIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST GEORGE ARMENIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND | $1,000 |
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 US giving — 82% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 18% that went abroad ($301k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 18% of all-years giving ($301k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k 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
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +8%
- TATHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT4× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +79%
- HOHouse of Hope Mer Hooys Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HSHOVNANIAN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
- DODIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $3k
- AVARCHBISHOP VATCHE HOVSEPIAN CAMPone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Provide cultural and educational services to the armenian community
Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage
The armenian technology group (atg) is dedicated to helping guide the republic of armenia toward food and agricultural self-sufficiency.
Further education
To provide an educational resource and research base for students, teachers, and policymakers on a comprehensive agenda of foreign and domestic issues mainly on achieving peace, stability and cooperation in the region and building…
The Armenian Evangelical Union of North America ("AEUNA") is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to uniting member churches, pastors, and organizations within the ecclesiastical fellowship for ministry, mission, and service in the…
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bounty & Soul. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 FRIENDS OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds HOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds House of Hope Mer Hooys Inc ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds Knights of Vartan Charitable Fund ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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) · Sjs Charitable Trust · Bedrosian Foundation · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation 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.
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% 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.
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