· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 18% of all-years giving ($301k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- KOKnights of Vartan Charitable Fundgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +48%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
- Hovnanian School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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