· Private foundation
The Susan Vartanian and J William Barba Foundation Inc
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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $18,547 |
| ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA | $3,619 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH INC | $2,500 |
| NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND | $1,500 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL | $500 |
| SPENCE SCHOOL | $500 |
| ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC | $295 |
| KENYA DRYLANDS EDUCATION FUND | $103 |
| ST MARY ARMENIAN CHURCH | $100 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AEARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $39k · revenue 0%
- TATHE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $16k
- COCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue 0%
Funded once
The Trustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +4%- TMTHE METROPOLITAN OPERAone grant, 2024 · $2k
- FOFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
Serves the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seeks to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation.
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 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…
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
Provide cultural and educational services to the armenian community
Further education
To promote understanding of the armenian genocide through research, analysis, publication, and public forums; to collect and organize documentation attesting to and preserving the memory of the armenian genocide; and to increase public…
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…
To educate the public about Armenian history, culture and heritage, including commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.
The foundation aims to improve access to quality healthcare by strengthening the healthcare system in armenia.
Arit provides support for u.s. and canadian research and exchanges in turkey, including turkish language study, fellowship programs, and research centers in istanbul and ankara. the research centers provide libraries, lodging, and research…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ORRAN ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON REVIEW INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Susan Vartanian and J William Barba Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susan Vartanian and J William Barba Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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