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Afeyan Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $720k
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $360,000 |
| BEACON ACADEMY INC | $240,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION | $200,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HAKAWATI | $80,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC | $50,000 |
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION | $50,000 |
| ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOC INC | $37,684 |
| ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOC INC | $30,000 |
| GREENLINE HOUSING FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOC INC | $30,000 |
| SPOONFULS INC | $25,000 |
| EVN NEWS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LETS BREAKTHROUGH INC | $20,000 |
| ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOC INC | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Afeyan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 29% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AHAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue ×12 · 81% of their budget
- BABEACON ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +102%
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION3× · 2022–2025 · $610k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- AHAurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundationone grant, 2020 · $1.2M
- FOFRIENDS OF FASTone grant, 2024 · $667k · revenue 0% · 29% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $620k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The organization's mission is to preserve the western armenian language; createoriginal picture books, contemporary graphic novels, young adult books, andclassroom resources in western armenian; create audio books of all books…
To promote understanding of the armenian genocide through research, analysis, publication, and public forums; to collect and organize documentation attesting to and preserving the memory of the armenian genocide; and to increase public…
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…
Humans are endowed with innate creative abilities; we have formed civilizations and societies, framed laws, built architectural marvels and created cultural masterpieces. it is our creative abilities that have allowed us to produce…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
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.…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Teach for Armenia Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Global Arm Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA 2020 INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Medical Association ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HAKAWATI ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VEM USA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA ARTSAKH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YERAZART INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPEAL OF CONSCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Armenia Empyrean Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Armenian General Benevolent Union · Boston Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Afeyan Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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