· Private foundation
The Vahik & Alice Petrossian 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $17,100 |
| TUFENKIAN PRESCHOOL | $11,000 |
| Diljian Int'l School of Armenia | $10,000 |
| Dilijan Development Foundation | $10,000 |
| ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSO | $6,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,036 |
| HAYORDI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ORRAN BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FAST | $5,000 |
| ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMERIC | $3,700 |
| My Forrest Foundation | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA | $2,580 |
| CIVILITAS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
| Alzheimer Care Armenia | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- AWARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $217k · revenue +516%
- AEARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $152k · revenue +590%
- COCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF4× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIANone grant, 2024 · $10k
- UWUNITED WORLD COLLEGES USAone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CACHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $8k
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 promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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…
Further education
Volunteer-led medical and technological mission to areas of Armenia under-served and promote economic and cultural ties between United States and Armenia
To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anca Endowment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Papayans Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 96 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 WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORRAN ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAST ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC ↗
- Who funds American Armenian Rose Float Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Edward Hosharian Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS CARE ARMENIA ↗
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 · Ucla Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Youredjian Family Charitable Foundation · The Gaska Alliance Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · Kasper and Siroon Hovannisian Family Cultural Foundation · Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust · TF Educational Foundation · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · Tufenkian Family 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 Vahik & Alice Petrossian 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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