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Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School

Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $639,360 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$639k
Grants received
$8.2M
Net assets
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets -321 ($-524525)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.4M) Expenses 92 ($1.2M) Net assets -191 ($-312667)2019 Revenue 99 ($1.2M) Expenses 84 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($163k)2020 Revenue 109 ($1.4M) Expenses 88 ($1.1M) Net assets 259 ($423k)2021 Revenue 84 ($1.1M) Expenses 98 ($1.2M) Net assets 144 ($235k)2022 Revenue 125 ($1.6M) Expenses 113 ($1.4M) Net assets 230 ($375k)2023 Revenue 123 ($1.5M) Expenses 125 ($1.6M) Net assets 210 ($343k)2024 Revenue 103 ($1.3M) Expenses 113 ($1.4M) Net assets 210 ($343k)2025 Revenue 160 ($2.0M) Expenses 169 ($2.1M) Net assets 5044 ($8.2M)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (169)Net assets (5044)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$702
17
$212k
18
$185k
19
$263k
20
$181k
21
$143k
22
$32k
23
$125k
24
$109k
25
49
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $777.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)92% 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 Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. 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

Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School.

63%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 65% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 64%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

40% of Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

92% of Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School'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 $49k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

ID
CA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $590k 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School: 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 Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School?
Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $639,360 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $639,360 in grants to Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School?
UCLA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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