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Thomas a Kooyumjian Family Foundation Attn Tony Kooyumjian

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.

$916k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$460k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.5MEnvironment$1.0MReligion$984kArts & Culture$965kAnimals$609kInternational$90kHealth$15kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $460k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$460,000
ST LOUIS ZOO$200,000
ST LOUIS BOTANICAL GARDENS$150,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO$25,000
HOLY VIRGIN MARY & SHOGHAGAT ARMENIAN CHURCH$24,000
VIANNEY HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ST DOMINIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ARMENIAN CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND$7,260
SACRED HEART$5,000
ST COLUMBKILLE CHURCH$5,000
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY$5,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$3,600
ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM$2,000
DANCE ST LOUIS$2,000
THE SHELDON CONCERT HALL$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 9%PROJECT DENTIST CARE: $1k → 11%PROJECT DENTIST CARE: $1k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $500 → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $500 → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $500 → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 36 repeat orgs$328k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
13

Total granted

$6.6M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+293%

Still filing today

33%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentReligionInternationalOther

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

  • MB
    MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $700k · revenue +28%
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $600k · revenue +63%
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $379k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • HV
    HOLY VIRGIN MARY & SHOGHAGAT CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $155k
  • AA
    ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue +293%
  • SC
    ST COLUMBKILLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

2
Saint Louis Symphony Endowment Trust

Manage and administer the endowment investment assets of the st louis symphony orchestra and to provide it with periodic distributions to support its operations.

Arts & Culture
3
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation

The siue foundation exists to support the mission, vision, and values of southern illinois university edwardsville. on behalf of the university, the foundation provides fundraising coordination and implementation, serves as the steward for…

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education
7
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
8
St Louis Art Museum Foundation

The sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.

Arts & Culture
9
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.

Arts & Culture
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Saint Peter's University

See schedule o.saint peter's university, inspired by its jesuit, catholic identity, commitment to individual attention, and grounding in the liberal arts, educates a diverse community of learners in undergraduate, graduate and professional…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Saint Louis Zoo Association and the most unlike its peers is Project Dentists Care of Southwest Fl Inc. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,460,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST LOUIS ZOO — $569,386 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOHOLY VIRGIN MARY & SHOGHAGAT ARMENIAN CHURCH — $357,459 · OtherHOLY VIRGIN MARY & SHOGHAGAT ARMENIAN CHURCHST LOUIS BOTANICAL GARDENS — $340,000 · OtherST LOUIS BOTANICAL GARDENSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO — $200,000 · OtherHOLY VIRGIN MARY & SHOGHAGAT CHURCH — $155,000 · OtherPARK RIDGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $150,000 · Other+32 more — $883,464 · Other+32 moreWebster University — $758,000 · EducationWebster UniversityCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $378,559 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE U…+1 more — $7,064 · EducationMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $700,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BO…SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $600,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUI…DANCE SAINT LOUIS — $28,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureArmenian Church Endowment Fund Inc — $176,466 · ReligionARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $90,000 · InternationalTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · AnimalsPROJECT DENTISTS CARE OF SOUTHWEST FL INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesPEDAL THE CAUSE — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$4,115,309Education$1,143,623Environment$700,000Arts & Culture$632,500Religion$176,466International$90,000Animals$40,000Human Services$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWebster University — $758,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $700,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $600,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $378,559 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetArmenian Church Endowment Fund Inc — $176,466 over 6y, 16% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $90,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANCE SAINT LOUIS — $28,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $11,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEAST CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,064 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT DENTISTS CARE OF SOUTHWEST FL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 Webster University
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
  • Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc
  • Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DANCE SAINT LOUIS
  • Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EAST CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC14.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Thomas a Kooyumjian Family Foundation Attn Tony Kooyumjian 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.

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no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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