· Private foundation
The Stephen Philibosian 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS CHARITIES - LIST ATTACHED | $471,255 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Stephen Philibosian Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 62%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
112 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 111 since wound down.
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, 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
Backed again, and grew
- DCDESERT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY5× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +62%
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2022 · $61k · revenue +28%
- CVCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $74k
- EMEisenhower Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $72k · revenue +66%
- CACHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY OF THE VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $39k
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.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Promotion of scholarly research on and in iraq and ancient mesopotamia. taarii raises funds for graduate and post-graduate fellowships for americans and for iraqi academics to perform research work on iraq in a broad range of disciplines.
Humans are endowed with innate creative abilities; we have formed civilizations and societies, framed laws, built architectural marvels and created cultural masterpieces. it is our creative abilities that have allowed us to produce…
The organization's mission is to preserve the western armenian language; createoriginal picture books, contemporary graphic novels, young adult books, andclassroom resources in western armenian; create audio books of all books…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To serve the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seek to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation throughout the world. moreover, to aid people in need, armenian and non-armenian, due to natural and man-made…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
How this is measured
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 259 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · John Mirak Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · TF Educational Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Tufenkian Family Foundation · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stephen Philibosian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephen Philibosian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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