Virginia · Private foundation
Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $492k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $37k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $34k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $25k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $29k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $42k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $31k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $29k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $22k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armenian American Cultural Association Inc | $70,000 | 8 | 13% |
| St Mary Armenian Apostolic Church | $19,750 | 8 | n/a |
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C | $15,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc | $6,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Young Concert Artists Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American University of Armenia Corporation | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc give?
- Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $37,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Religion (26%), Education (10%).
- Who are Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Armenian American Cultural Association Inc ($70k), St Mary Armenian Apostolic Church ($20k), Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C ($15k).
- Does Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vartkess & Rita Balian Family 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 Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Parsekian Foundation Inc, Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation, Nazarian Family Foundation.
- Where is Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc based?
- Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc is based in VA.
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