· Private foundation
Cherchian Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k21 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUND FOR ARMENIA RELIEF INC | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH | $9,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $7,000 |
| MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ARMENIA BASKETBALL | $5,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION | $3,000 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA (EASTERN) | $3,000 |
| WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN OF ARMENIA SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF | $1,500 |
| ST HAGOP ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH | $1,500 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TPTHE PAROS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $121k · revenue +75%
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC4× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +159%
MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- TETHE EASTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $153k
- SUSAHMAN USAone grant, 2022 · $24k
- AFARMENIA FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $11k
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Promotion of scholarly research on and in iraq and ancient mesopotamia. taarii raises funds for graduate and post-graduate fellowships for americans and for iraqi academics to perform research work on iraq in a broad range of disciplines.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Paros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 64 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 THE PAROS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Armenia Fund USA Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN 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: Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Sjs Charitable Trust · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · The James H and Marta T Batmasian Family Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation
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 Cherchian Family Foundation Inc 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.
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