· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| EASTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ST MARY ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| WETA | $1,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL | $1,000 |
| YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS OF WASHINGTON | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| NAASR | $1,000 |
| ZORYAN INSTITUTE FOR COMTEMPORARY ARMENIAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION | $1,000 |
| ST ALBANS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST LEON ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF | $1,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF VARTAN | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 16% of Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 23%.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +293%
- SNST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +60%
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- AAACAone grant, 2023 · $10k
- AHAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INCgraduated2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +769%
- PParosone grant, 2023 · $3k
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 armenian contemporary experimental art
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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…
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
To provide an educational resource and research base for students, teachers, and policymakers on a comprehensive agenda of foreign and domestic issues mainly on achieving peace, stability and cooperation in the region and building…
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) encourages and supports scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) across all disciplines of the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.…
To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events
The anca-wr works in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the western united states to actively advance the concerns of the armenian american community on a range of issues. these issues include…
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 67 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 ARMENIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PAROS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Knights of Vartan Inc ↗
- Who funds Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds POST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE 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: The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · United Armenian Charities Inc · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · John Mirak Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · TF Educational Foundation · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Sjs Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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