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Akian 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN DIOCESE ARMENIAN CHURCH | $160,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA | $60,000 |
| REARMENIA INC | $25,000 |
| VEM USA | $25,000 |
| ORRAN BENEVOLENT NGO | $20,000 |
| OUR LADY OF ARMENIA CHURCH | $5,000 |
| POMEGRANATE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $695k · revenue +18%
- VUVEM USA4× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +260%
- OORRAN5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- WDWESTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $150k
- TFTUMO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- OAONE ARMENIA INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -84%
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.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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…
Further education
To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
The basic premise of the organization is to nurture, safeguard and promote the armenian language, cultural values, traditions and education throughout the armenian diaspora and armenia
The mission of Future of Armenia is to improve the quality of life of the people in Armenia, especially its servicemen and their families. A humanitarian organization, Future of Armenia channels donor funds to support those impacted by the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenia Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tumo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VEM USA ↗
- Who funds ORRAN ↗
- Who funds ADELPHI UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TUMO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAST ↗
- Who funds RE ARMENIA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ARMENIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds POMEGRANATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ARMENIAN SOLDIER & FAMILY ↗
- Who funds LARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds ARPA Institute Inc ↗
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: Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · Afeyan Family Foundation · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Akian 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.