Michigan · Private foundation
Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,010,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $2.4M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $2.2M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.1M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $3.3M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $2.0M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund for Armenian Relief Inc | $9,552,500 | 7 | 33% |
| Michigan Animal Rescue League | $1,170,000 | 7 | 14% |
| National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc | $540,000 | 5 | 27% |
| Armenian Apostolic Society | $266,000 | 7 | n/a |
| St Johns Armenian Church | $217,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Gift of Life Inc | $210,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Detroit Zoological Society | $144,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf | $125,000 | 6 | 1% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $105,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Child Safe Michigan | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust · Hagopian Family Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · John Mirak Foundation · The James H and Marta T Batmasian Family Foundation Inc · Alex and Marie Manoogian Foundation · Sarkisian Foundation · Sjs Charitable Trust · United Armenian Charities Inc · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Zartarian Foundation
How this is measured
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About Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation
- How much does Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation give?
- Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $2,525,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (53%), Religion (19%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Fund for Armenian Relief Inc ($9.6M), Michigan Animal Rescue League ($1.2M), National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ($540k).
- Does Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Parsekian Foundation Inc, Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust, Hagopian Family Foundation.
- Where is Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation based?
- Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation is based in MI.
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