· Private foundation
Cherchian Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| FRIENDS OF ARMENIA BASKETBALL | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $5,000 |
| MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC | $3,000 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA (EASTERN) | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION | $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 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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)
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 64 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 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- 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 ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cherchian Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cherchian Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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