· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $250k+1 grant · $544k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TUFENKIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $544,172 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY DEVELOPEMENT | $4,000 |
| HOPE FOR NEW YORK | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| MOTHER JONES INVESTIGATIVE FUND | $3,500 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $3,000 |
| OPEN HANDS LEGAL SERVICES INC | $3,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $3,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPORATION | $3,000 |
| THE BRONX DEFENDDERS | $2,500 |
| HAMAZKAYIN ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ENDOWMENT FUND | $2,500 |
| BRENNAN CENTER | $2,500 |
| ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 62% of grant dollars ($4.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 38% that went abroad ($3.0M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 38% of all-years giving ($3.0M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Tufenkian Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 26%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHOPE FOR NEW YORK6× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +24%
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC3× · 2019–2023 · $27k · revenue +52%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE7× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- WSWOMEN'S SUPPORT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $171k
- TPTHE PHILOS PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $130k · revenue -13%
- HPHAYRENASER PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $38k
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.
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.
To promote understanding of the armenian genocide through research, analysis, publication, and public forums; to collect and organize documentation attesting to and preserving the memory of the armenian genocide; and to increase public…
Alc seeks to secure justice for those who have suffered war crimes as a result of the unprovoked attack by azerbaijan on nagorno-karabagh during 2020 and 2023 including bringing cases, working with other not-for-profits, before the…
Education about armenia & caucasu region
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To support people and promote global projects tackling the needs of the most helpless and destitute Aurora is rooted in the events of the Armenian Genocide one hundred years ago and the enhancement of its position in the world's memory. We…
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…
The auschwitz institute for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities is dedicated to building a world that prevents genocide. we aim to see every state effectively integrate within government the domestically developed function of…
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE PHILOS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Sojourners Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds CODE 3 ANGELS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds GURGEN MELIKYAN MULTICHILDREN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Open Hands Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ARMENIA INC ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Medical Association ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tufenkian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tufenkian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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