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Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc

The mission of the Armenian Church Endowment Fund ("ACEF") is to provide financial support to the Diocese, parishes, and related entities of the Armenian Apostolic Church through oversight of pooled investments under our management.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$16MEducation$860kInternational$667kArts & Culture$79kMembership Benefit$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $2,863,057, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,429,027 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $565,970 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $222k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $760k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$33,608
Median grant
12
States reached
$152M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Diocese of the Armenian Church$1,451,318
St Nersess Armenian Seminary$396,950
Holy Martyrs Armenian Day School$124,251
Fund for Armenian Relief$106,138
St John Armenian Church$93,336
Armenian Apostolic Society$83,086
St Mary Armenian Apostolic Church$67,891
Soorp Haroutiun Armenian Church$64,728
St Leon Armenian Church$63,493
St John the Baptist Armenian Church$53,136
Holy Cross Armenian Church$52,990
Sts Sahag & Mesrob Armenian Church$51,292
St Gregory the Enlightener$46,498
St James Armenian Church$33,608
Holy Trinity Armenian Church$23,047
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%St Nersess Armenian Seminary: $397k → 9%Holy Martyrs Armenian Day School: $124k → 13%Diocese of the Armenian Church: $1.5M → 17%St Mary Armenian Church: $65k → 14%St John Armenian Church: $93k → 8%St Mary Armenian Apostolic Church: $68k → 16%St Nersess Armenian Seminary: $378k → 9%Holy Martyrs Armenian Day School: $119k → 13%Diocese of the Armenian Church: $1.3M → 17%St John Armenian Church: $86k → 8%St Nersess Armenian Seminary: $359k → 9%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN CHURCH: $118k → 13%Diocese of the Armenian Church: $1.3M → 17%Armenian Apostolic Society: $83k → 8%ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY: $327k → 9%Holy Martyrs Armenian Day School: $114k → 13%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $1.2M → 17%ST JOHN'S ARMENIAN CHURCH: $81k → 8%ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY: $327k → 9%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $108k → 13%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $1.1M → 17%Soorp Haroutiun Armenian Church: $65k → 13%ST JOHN'S ARMENIAN CHURCH: $80k → 8%ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY: $315k → 9%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $106k → 13%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $1.1M → 17%ST JOHN'S ARMENIAN CHURCH: $80k → 8%ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY: $291k → 9%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $105k → 13%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $1.1M → 17%Armenian Apostolic Society: $80k → 8%ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY: $240k → 9%HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL: $105k → 13%Fund for Armenian Relief: $106k → 17%Armenian Apostolic Society: $77k → 8%Fund for Armenian Relief: $103k → 17%ST JOHN'S ARMENIAN CHURCH: $76k → 8%St Leon Armenian Church: $63k → 7%Fund for Armenian Relief: $97k → 17%St John Armenian Church: $74k → 8%FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF: $92k → 17%ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC SOCIETY INC: $72k → 8%FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF: $90k → 17%ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC SOCIETY INC: $71k → 8%FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF: $90k → 17%ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC SOCIETY INC: $71k → 8%FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF: $89k → 17%ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC SOCIETY INC: $70k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
MO
VA
NC
DC
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $496k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$391k · 79% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Program services

Middle East and North Africa$105k · 21% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Program services

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 31 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -44% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
4

Total granted

$18M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-44%

Still filing today

16%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SN
    ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +60% · 54% of their budget
  • HM
    HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $781k · revenue +21%
  • FF
    FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $667k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER BOSTON TRUST FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -44%
  • FP
    FR PAREN AVEDIKIAN ANNUITY
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • SS
    ST SAHAG ARMENIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $8,742,393 · OtherDIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICAST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC: $2,633,045 · OtherST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INCST JOHNS ARMENIAN CHURCH: $1,093,757 · OtherST JOHNS ARMENIAN CHURCHHOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC: $781,404 · Other+29 more: $3,584,172 · Other+29 moreFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC: $667,224 · InternationalARMENIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $78,743 · Arts & Culture
Other$16,834,771International$667,224Arts & Culture$78,743

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC: $2,633,045 over 8y, 54% of budgetHOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC: $781,404 over 7y, 16% of budgetFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC: $667,224 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetARMENIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $78,743 over 7y, 15% of budgetARMENIAN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $63,945 over 4y, 10% of budgetHOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER BOSTON TRUST FUND: $19,505 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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 ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER BOSTON TRUST FUND ↗

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.

United Armenian Chari…Nazarian Family Found…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Armenian Charities IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Armenian Charities Inc · Nazarian Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Armenian Church Endowment Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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