California · Nonprofit
NVAK INC
NVAK INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,883 to it, the largest being ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Nvak Inc does
Mission
Nvak (which means music in armenian) is a music education program whose mission is to educate and develop the skills of young musicians living in countries facing social,political and/or economic challenges.we connect our students (ages 14-30) with educators and professionals from the music business,using music education as a way to (1) bring people together into dialogue,(2) foster artistic and social collaboration and (3) help our students find career growth opportunities that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2015, because of the work tamar was doing in the u.s. Music business,she was given the opportunity to spend extended amounts of time in yerevan,armenia. During those months, she got to know local creatives and realized while talent was equally distributed, opportunity was not.the armenian youth possessed huge amounts of emotional intelligence; they were curious and hungry to learn; they wanted to integrate into the global and technologically connected world; and they wanted to have more access to opportunities that were unavailable to them. Tamar realized that because of her connections in the music industry, and the platform she had in the country, there was an opportunity for her to create an organization super-serving talented musicians in armenia. Prior to nvak, there was no collaborative, cohesive, vibrant, modern music community in armenia. Young musicians were not producing or releasing original music. They were not collaborating and working with each other. They were not playing live shows. No one knew what an open-mic-night was. No one knew what songwriter circles were. The mission was to create change and to weave together the fragmented creative community. By 2019,…
$61,380 spent48% of program spendingN/a
$65,236 spent52% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $126,616.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $22k to $4k (−83%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NVAK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $40k → $30k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 NVAK INC’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
NVAK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
94% 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 NVAK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 37% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of NVAK INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
NVAK INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NVAK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like NVAK INC
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NVAK INC: 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 NVAK INC?
- NVAK INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,883 to it, the largest being ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NVAK INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $200,883 in grants to NVAK INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NVAK INC?
- ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NVAK INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 10 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