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The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation at a glance

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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.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$258kArts & Culture$189kEducation$143kHuman Services$99kHealth$15kReligion$8kPhilanthropy$7kScience & Tech$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$186k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ORRAN BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATION: $5k → 14%ORRAN BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATION: $5k → 14%ORRAN BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATION: $3k → 14%ORRAN BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATION: $2k → 14%ORRAN BENEVOLANT NGO: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
NM
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$637k · 37 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
44

Total granted

$637k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+12%

Still filing today

51%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AW
    ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $217k · revenue +516%
  • AE
    ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $152k · revenue +590%
  • CO
    CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF
    4× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIAN
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • UW
    UNITED WORLD COLLEGES USA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CA
    CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Armenian Sports Hall of Fame
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2
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
3
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
4
Armenian Film Society

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
7
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
8
Armenian Cultural Foundation
—
9
Amin Arasteh Foundation
—
10
Advance Armenia Foundation

Volunteer-led medical and technological mission to areas of Armenia under-served and promote economic and cultural ties between United States and Armenia

International
11
Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center Inc

To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events

Arts & Culture
12
Research On Armenian Architecture Usa

Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anca Endowment Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
17/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $217,175 · InternationalARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INCCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF: $21,500 · InternationalCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDR…ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI: $10,050 · International+4 more: $8,500 · InternationalARMENIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $37,250 · OtherARMENIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,610 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST MARY'S CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL: $17,750 · OtherST MARY'S CHAMLIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOLTUFENKIAN PRESCHOOL: $15,950 · OtherTUFENKIAN PRESCHOOLFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIAN: $10,200 · OtherARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMER: $10,103 · OtherDiljian Int'l School of Armenia: $10,000 · OtherUNITED WORLD COLLEGES USA: $10,000 · OtherDilijan Development Foundation: $10,000 · OtherHAYORDI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Other+63 more: $82,588 · Other+63 moreARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $152,000 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUND…ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATI…+3 more: $9,860 · Arts & Culture+3 moreAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $17,985 · EducationARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $4,550 · EducationHIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE: $4,000 · EducationEdward Hosharian Foundation Inc: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationORRAN: $15,920 · Human ServicesTUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC: $6,625 · PhilanthropyTUMO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIA FUND INC: $500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF FAST: $5,550 · Science & Tech
International$257,225Other$253,451Arts & Culture$177,860Education$28,785Human Services$15,920Philanthropy$8,125Science & Tech$5,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $217,175 over 7y, 23% of budgetARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $152,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF: $21,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $17,985 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetORRAN: $15,920 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI: $10,050 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC: $6,625 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FAST: $5,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION: $4,860 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetARMENIAN MEDIA NETWORK: $4,550 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE: $4,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF WESTERN USA INC: $3,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Armenian Rose Float Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMERS CARE ARMENIA: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEdward Hosharian Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGlendale Adventist Medical Center Fdtn Adventist Health Glendale Foundation: $1,230 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUMO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF ARMENIA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUSA LER ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND AIM FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCODE 3 ANGELS: $400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAPAYANS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ALZHEIMERS CARE ARMENIA ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Edward Hosharian Foundation 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.

Mina & Hacob Shirvani…Ucla FoundationJhm Charitable Founda…Youredjian Family Cha…The Gaska Alliance Fo…Afeyan Family Foundat…The Stephen Philibosi…Kasper and Siroon Hov…Nora Tertzag Hampar C…TF Educational Founda…Armenia Empyrean Foun…Tufenkian Family Foun…
Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation IncCA36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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