California · Nonprofit
ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY
ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,499 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($26,999). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incshared funders
- The Gaska Alliance Foundationportfolio match
- George Ignatius Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
51% of ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $36k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incshared fundersNY · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- The Gaska Alliance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George Ignatius Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Armenian Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Parsekian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Galadjian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Armenian General Benevolent Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bedrosian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY?
- ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,499 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($26,999). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $72,499 in grants to ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY.
- Who is the largest funder of ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing