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The Shirvanian Family Foundation at a glance

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The Shirvanian 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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$560kArts & Culture$115kInternational$89kPublic Benefit$55kHealth$55kEducation$25kCrime & Legal$5kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,000
ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$2,500
ST MARY'S RICHARD TUFENKIAN PRESCHO$2,500
ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT$1,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORP$1,000
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION$1,000
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION$1,000
HOLY MARTYRS FERRAHIAN PRESCHOOL$1,000
ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMERIC$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ABILITY FIRST: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$1.1M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+128%
0%

Still filing today

29%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT
    4× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +124%
  • AE
    ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +569%
  • FW
    FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION
    4× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EPOCH TIMES ORAGNE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • AR
    ARMENIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ASS
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Armenian Sports Hall of Fame
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2
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
3
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
4
Armenian International Medical Fund Aim Fund

Create and maintain innovative health care programs in armenia, performing cochlear implants and bone anchored aid (baha) surgeries, newborn hearing screening and training future otologists in armenia.

Health
5
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc
International
6
Classical Armenia

The purpose of the non profit is to support classical music artistsand organisations to popularise the armenian classical music andthe classical music in armenia.

Arts & Culture
7
Advance Armenia Foundation

Volunteer-led medical and technological mission to areas of Armenia under-served and promote economic and cultural ties between United States and Armenia

International
8
Armenian Film Society

Armenian film society celebrates armenian culture through year-round programming of film screenings, discussions, workshop, and lectures. it shines a spotlight on armenian films and filmmakers, as week as films that deal with armenian…

Arts & Culture
9
Research On Armenian Architecture Usa

Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.

Arts & Culture
10
The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
11
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
12
Arahed Foundation Inc

The foundation aims to improve access to quality healthcare by strengthening the healthcare system in armenia.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Armenian Eyecare Project; the most unlike its peers is The Paros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $370,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST MARY'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $354,800 · OtherST MARY'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCHOCEANS CHURCH: $177,000 · OtherOCEANS CHURCHTHE EPOCH TIMES ORANGE COUNTY: $100,000 · OtherTHE EPOCH TIMES ORANGE COUNTYTHE EPOCH TIMES ORAGNE COUNTY: $55,000 · OtherARMENIA WOUNDED HEROS FUND: $46,000 · Other+19 more: $110,200 · Other+19 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $7,500 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $3,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthPOST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSE OF ARMENIA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureABILITYFIRST: $10,000 · Human ServicesLa Sierra University: $5,000 · EducationHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $1,000 · EducationEdward Hosharian Foundation Inc: $1,000 · EducationAngel Force USA: $8,000 · Public BenefitTHE PAROS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,213,000Health$36,500Arts & Culture$16,000Human Services$10,000Education$9,500Public Benefit$8,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Force USA: $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $7,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPOST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLa Sierra University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF ARMENIA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdward Hosharian Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PAROS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
  • Who funds Angel Force USA ↗
  • Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds POST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds La Sierra University ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF ARMENIA ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Edward Hosharian Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PAROS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗

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.

The Stephen Philibosi…The Armen and Gloria …Sami & Annie Totah Fa…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Stephen Philibosian FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Shirvanian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shirvanian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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