California · Nonprofit
HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE
HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,432 to it, the largest being The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc ($35,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Hidden Road Initiative does
Mission
The Hidden Road Initiative (HRI) is a charitable non-profit organization that aims to provide educational and leadership opportunities for students living in remote villages in Armenia through annual educational summer camps, scholarship opportunities, and development projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Online English Classes - HRI's Online English Program reaches students from the border villages of Armenia and Artsakh who are excited to learn English! In weekly sessions between our students and volunteer English tutors from around the world, we foster a close relationship between mentors and students and continuously work to create a safe community for everyone in our program. Currently, our program boasts over 115 students from 23 villages in Armenia and Artsakh, who are paired one-on-one with over 80 tutors. This approach allows teachers to adequately address the students' skill level and ensure progression. The Cambridge English curriculum is used during the lessons. In these weekly classes, a unique relationship is established between our students and volunteers abroad as we collectively promote a virtual English learning opportunity.
$12,276 spent26% of program spendingSummer Camp - 2025 Summer Camp brought together 74 students from Armenia's border villages and Artsakh for an exciting 4 days of educational and social-emotional enrichment. Supported by a team of 21 teachers and 9 support staff from different places around the world, this year's camp was an exciting week of learning, connecting, and having fun. The goal of the summer camps is to empower the village students, develop new relationships, and teach 21st century skills. Classes vary depending on the skills our camp leaders bring!
$22,447 spent48% of program spendingScholar Service Program - The Scholar Service Program aims to empower university and college students from Armenia and Artsakh's border villages to initiate and execute community development projects in their villages, by identifying pressing issues and coming up with sustainable solutions.
$6,700 spent14% of program spendingScholarship - The Hidden Road Initiative provides scholarships to students from underprivileged villages who are enrolled in a college, university or vocational program. The purpose of the scholarship program is to have a sustainable impact on the youth we've interacted with through our summer camps and projects and to ensure that they pursue higher education, despite their financial hardships.
$5,091 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,514.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $86k to $173k (+101%).
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.
100% of HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $57k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE’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
HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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
65% of HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE'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 $42k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE?
- HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,432 to it, the largest being The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc ($35,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $122,432 in grants to HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE?
- The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIDDEN ROAD INITIATIVE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing