· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Afeyan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 29%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 VEM USA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA ARTSAKH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YERAZART INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ARM FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Afeyan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Afeyan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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