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Aurelian and Anahid Mardirosian Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Aurelian and Anahid Mardirosian Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$226kArts & Culture$85kReligion$69kInternational$45kHuman Services$15kHealth$2kPublic Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$1,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$43,500
OUR LADY'S ACADEMY$11,275
SAYATNOVA DANCE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$1,800
HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH$1,400
HOLY ARCHANGELS ARMENIAN CHURCH$200
KNIGHTS OF VARTAN$195
HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $48k → 8%ALEXANDER ARONSON FINNING CP: $750 → 11%AMERICAN HERITAGE PARK: $5k → 16%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY SOSSE CHAPTER: $20k → 14%ST STEPHEN ELEMENTRY SCHOOL: $46k → 8%CITY SMILES: $1k → 16%ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $44k → 8%ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $41k → 8%ST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER: $30k → 8%ST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN SCHOOL: $11k → 8%ST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 8%ST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER: $10k → 8%ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA: $10k → 8%TEKYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 8%SAYATNOVA DANCE: $10k → 8%Sayat Nova Dance Co Inc: $10k → 8%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY: $10k → 8%KNIGHTS OF VARTAN: $7k → 8%Armenian Relief Society Inc: $5k → 8%DAUGHTERS OF VARTAN: $5k → 8%ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 8%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC: $5k → 8%SAYAT NOVA DANCE CO: $5k → 8%SAYAT NOVA DANCE CO INC: $5k → 8%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY: $1k → 8%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC: $1k → 8%Soc of Istanbul Armenians of Boston: $1k → 8%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC: $1k → 8%ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY: $800 → 8%DAUGHTERS OF VARTIAN: $2k → 8%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY: $2k → 8%HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH: $7k → 8%HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH: $1k → 8%Holy Trinity Armenian Church: $1k → 8%Holy Trinity Armenian Church: $1k → 8%HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH: $1k → 8%HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH: $1k → 8%EREVAN CHORAL SOCIETY: $1k → 8%OUR LADY'S ACADEMY: $11k → 8%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH: $11k → 8%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESE: $11k → 8%NAASR: $10k → 8%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESE: $2k → 8%NAASR: $2k → 8%NAASR: $1k → 8%NAASR: $1k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$317k · 12 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
35

Total granted

$317k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-29%
0%

Still filing today

25%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SS
    ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2025 · $158k
  • SS
    ST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $41k
  • SN
    SAYAT NOVA DANCE CO INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue -77%

Funded once

  • SS
    ST STEPHEN ELEMENTRY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $46k
  • AR
    ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY SOSSE CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • NA
    National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -69%
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

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.

1
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
2
Armenian Sports Hall of Fame
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3
Armenian Film Society

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
5
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
6
Armenian Cultural Foundation
—
7
Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center Inc

To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events

Arts & Culture
8
Armenian National Institute Inc

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…

International
9
Armenian Historical Association of Ri

The mission of the armenian historical association of rhode island is to promote armenian culture, heritage and history in the state of rhode island while preserving its ethnic heritage through public exhibitions, displays, artifacts and…

Arts & Culture
10
Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society Inc

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

Arts & Culture
11
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
12
Armenian National Committee Western Region

The entity engages in educational and charitable activities. The entity also supports ANCA-WR C4, in its non-profit activities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Cultural Association of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Armenian Independent Broadcasting of Boston Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $157,595 · OtherST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST STEPHEN ELEMENTRY SCHOOL: $46,000 · OtherST STEPHEN ELEMENTRY SCHOOLST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER: $40,825 · OtherST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATERARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY SOSSE CHAPTER: $20,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH: $17,105 · OtherNAASR: $13,720 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESE: $13,000 · Other+34 more: $70,559 · Other+34 moreSAYAT NOVA DANCE CO INC: $30,200 · Arts & CultureSAYAT NOVA D…ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: $10,441 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN MUS…TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEKEYAN CULT…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC: $24,500 · International+2 more: $600 · InternationalCITY OF SMILE - USA INC: $300 · Philanthropy
Other$378,804Arts & Culture$51,141International$25,100Philanthropy$300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAYAT NOVA DANCE CO INC: $30,200 over 5y, 19% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC: $24,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: $10,441 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIAN INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING OF BOSTON INC: $500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetARMENIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF SMILE - USA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE YEREVAN SISTER CITY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT SAVE ARMENIAN PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SAYAT NOVA DANCE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DAUGHTERS OF VARTAN ALICE KALUSTIAN ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF SMILE - USA INC ↗

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.

Charles Mosesian Fami…The Parsekian Foundat…Leon and Marion Semon…Vartkess & Rita Balia…John Mirak FoundationRobert a Semonian Cha…United Armenian Chari…Nazarian Family Found…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charles Mosesian Family FoundationMA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · John Mirak Foundation · Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust · United Armenian Charities Inc · Nazarian Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Aurelian and Anahid Mardirosian Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aurelian and Anahid Mardirosian Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%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
    7get 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.

    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 49 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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