· Private foundation
The Susan Vartanian and J William Barba Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA | $12,550 |
| CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND | $11,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $2,214 |
| FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA | $1,000 |
| ORRAN BENEVOLENT NGO | $1,000 |
| BUCKLEY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC | $1,000 |
| JOSEPH HOUSE IN TALLAHASSEE | $500 |
| HARDING LAND TRUST | $500 |
| SPENCE SCHOOL | $500 |
| CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING | $250 |
| ST LEON ARMENIAN CHURCH | $250 |
| HUDSON REVIEW | $100 |
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 human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
Founded in 1955, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is an independent non-profit membership organization, and one of the world's leading Armenian Studies centers and rare book libraries. NAASR advances…
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 foundation aims to improve access to quality healthcare by strengthening the healthcare system in armenia.
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…
Further education
Assistance to educational institutions and grants to indigent scholars
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
To educate, empower, and build hope for children with significant special needs and their families.
Provide cultural and educational services to the armenian community
The armenian technology group (atg) is dedicated to helping guide the republic of armenia toward food and agricultural self-sufficiency.
To educate the public about Armenian history, culture and heritage, including commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Teach for Armenia Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Harding Land Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ORRAN ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON REVIEW INC ↗
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: Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Susan Vartanian and J William Barba Foundation Inc 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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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