New Jersey · 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.
- $364k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 8 | $364k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $414k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $672k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $62k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $132k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Friends of Holy Etchmiadzin Inc | $143,366 | 2 | 7% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $52,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American University of Armenia Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc | $26,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hovnanian School Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Armenian Eyecare Project | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| House of Hope Mer Hooys Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Bounty & Soul | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Knights of Vartan Charitable Fund | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Friends of Holy Etchmiadzin Inc | $143,366 | 2 | 7% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $52,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American University of Armenia Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc | $26,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hovnanian School Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Armenian Eyecare Project | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| House of Hope Mer Hooys Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Bounty & Soul | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Knights of Vartan Charitable Fund | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Food Action in New Jersey | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $300 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation
- How much does The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation give?
- The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $363,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Education (23%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Friends of Holy Etchmiadzin Inc ($143k), St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc ($52k), American University of Armenia Corporation ($50k).
- Does The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family 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 Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N), Sjs Charitable Trust, Bedrosian Foundation.
- Where is The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation based?
- The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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