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Tufenkian Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$647k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
35
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$544,172
Organizations funded a year
21 to 44
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$106k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Tufenkian Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving32$647k22%
FY202335$1.1M17%
FY202244$1.2M48%
FY202133$828k21%
FY202034$1.3M26%
FY201928$1.1M18%
FY201835$764k86%
FY201721$795kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MInternational$1.2MEmployment$829kHuman Services$574kReligion$456kPublic Safety & Disaster$434kPublic Benefit$263kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AR
DC
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Philos Project Inc$130,00012%
Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New York$39,0006n/a
Hope for New York$34,00060%
Sojourners Inc$33,00070%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$27,00030%
Equal Justice Initiative$26,50070%
The Bronx Defenders$23,00070%
Code 3 Angels$22,805251%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$22,00070%
Gurgen Melikyan Multichildren Family Foundation$15,000117%
Show all 45 grantees
All grantees of Tufenkian Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Philos Project Inc$130,00012%
Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New York$39,0006n/a
Hope for New York$34,00060%
Sojourners Inc$33,00070%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$27,00030%
Equal Justice Initiative$26,50070%
The Bronx Defenders$23,00070%
Code 3 Angels$22,805251%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$22,00070%
Gurgen Melikyan Multichildren Family Foundation$15,000117%
The Salvation Army$13,0004n/a
Earthjustice$13,00070%
City Harvest Inc$12,50070%
Open Hands Legal Services Inc$12,00031%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,50070%
One Armenia Inc$10,25022%
Armenian American Medical Association$10,0001n/a
Atlantic Council of the United States Inc$10,00010%
The Brooklyn Tabernacle$9,5006n/a
The Carter Center Inc$8,50070%
Oxfam-America Inc$8,00070%
Times Square Church Inc$8,0003n/a
My Brother's Keeper Inc$7,500310%
Columbia Land Conservancy Inc$5,0001n/a
The Genocide Education Project$3,00021%
Salvation Army National Corp$3,0001n/a
The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Endowment Fund$2,5001n/a
Armenian Educational Foundation$2,50010%
Soh USA$2,50011%
The Legal Aid Society$2,50010%
The Civilitas Foundation$2,47210%
The Academy For Christian Thought$2,20061%
Armenian Relief Society Inc$2,00020%
Prison Fellowship Ministries$2,00020%
Human Rights Watch Inc$1,50010%
Armenia Fund USA Inc$1,00011%
Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America Inc$85020%
Friends of Thirteen Inc$7501n/a
Rise Up$50010%
The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc$50010%
Wnet$50010%
Cultural Impact Foundation Inc$50010%
Our Rescue$25010%
The Andrew McDonough B Foundation$25010%
Voice of Armenians Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Tufenkian Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Philos Project Inc: $130,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHope for New York: $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSojourners Inc: $33,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetArmenian Assembly of America Inc: $27,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $26,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bronx Defenders: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCode 3 Angels: $22,805 over 2y, 51% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGurgen Melikyan Multichildren Family Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetEarthjustice: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Hands Legal Services Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOne Armenia Inc: $10,250 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAtlantic Council of the United States Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brother's Keeper Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetThe Genocide Education Project: $3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetArmenian Educational Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoh USA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Legal Aid Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Civilitas Foundation: $2,472 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Academy For Christian Thought: $2,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetArmenian Relief Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrison Fellowship Ministries: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmenia Fund USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetArmenian Engineers and Scientists of America Inc: $850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRise Up: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Halo Trust (Usa) Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWnet: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCultural Impact Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOur Rescue: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Andrew McDonough B Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of Armenians Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Afeyan Family FoundationDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Afeyan Family Foundation · Ucla Foundation · K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust

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.

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About Tufenkian Foundation Inc

How much does Tufenkian Foundation Inc give?
Tufenkian Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $646,772 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tufenkian Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (20%), Philanthropy (19%), International (16%).
Who are Tufenkian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Philos Project Inc ($130k), Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New York ($39k), Hope for New York ($34k).
Does Tufenkian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tufenkian Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tufenkian Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Afeyan Family Foundation, Ucla Foundation, K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation.
Where is Tufenkian Foundation Inc based?
Tufenkian Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 106 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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