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The Svs 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $13,900 |
| ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATIONHAMAZKAYIN | $1,500 |
| Charlie Keyan Armenian School (Charlie Keyan Armenian Community School) | $1,000 |
| Western Diocese of the Armenian Church | $1,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $600 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $530 |
| Rose & Alex Pilibos Armenian School | $500 |
| AGBU Manoogian-Demirdjian School (Demirjian High School) | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
| Ararat Home of Los Angeles | $350 |
| Mission San Fernando Rey de Espaa | $200 |
| Homenetmen Massis Chapter | $200 |
| Mission San Juan Capistrano | $130 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 14 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LALOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $710 · revenue +7%
- DGDESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $140 · revenue +3%
- IMInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration4× · 2022–2025 · $110 · revenue +8%
Funded once
- AAARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF HIGH DESERT4× · 2022–2025 · $3k
- ACARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +29%
- IAI AM MINISTRIESVENTURA MISSIONARY CHURCH2× · 2024–2025 · $100
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
The california museum - home of the california hall of fame - engages, educates and enlightens people about california's rich history, its diversity, and its unique influence on the world of ideas, innovation, art, and culture. through…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
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…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The museum's primary exempt purpose is to promote the understanding of the role of art and artists in americn culture through collect, exhibition, research, and instruction. the focus of the organization collection is on the art of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLIE KEYAN ARMENIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGBU MANOOGIAN-DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Armenian Monument Council Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hermosa Beach Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
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: California Community Foundation · George Ignatius Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Svs Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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