· Private foundation
Vartabedian Family 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $46,800 |
| FRANKLIN LAKES FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $31,000 |
| BERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE | $10,000 |
| St Leon Armenian Apostolic Church | $7,000 |
| FRANKLIN LAKES LIONS CLUB | $6,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CHURCH OF ARMENIA | $5,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA | $5,000 |
| PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE | $2,500 |
| FRANKLIN LAKES MEMORIAL POND | $2,500 |
| NEW JERSEY AUDUBON | $1,000 |
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, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BCBERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +51%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +145%- PFPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- PWPITTSBURGH WRESTLING CLUBone grant, 2024 · $50k
- COCHURCH OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENTone grant, 2024 · $10k
MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +84%
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.
The mission of the children's home society of new jersey is to save children's lives and build healthy families. chs provides at-risk children and their families with a range of culturally sensitive social services that strengthen, support…
Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…
Autism family services of new jersey is dedicated to ensuring a better quality of life for individuals with autism and their families. our skilled team works in partnership with families to address daily challenges, foster communication,…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
Child Focus champions the best interests of children involved with the child welfare, foster care and court systems.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The founders of children's fun in the sun foundation have perceived a gap that exists between the needs of certain terminally ill and children suffering from life threatening medical conditions, which is defined as any form of progressive,…
The mission of the emmanuel cancer foundation (ecf) is to provide new jersey families faced with pediatric cancer a place to turn for comfort and relief through free supportive services tailored to each family.
At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.
The mission of jessica june children's cancer foundation (the "organization") is to help children and their families fight cancer by providing emergency financial assistance for basic human necessities and supportive care services.…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis - a Haven for Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 BERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Lions Club Foundation of Franklin Lakes ↗
- Who funds MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE SIMPLE WISH INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLIE LANDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT COALITION ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
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: Columbia Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Vartabedian Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Families for Families — 2% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- The Forum School — 0% of income from government
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.