· Private foundation
Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation
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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF | $2,010,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $100,000 |
| EASTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN EAS | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC SOCIETY | $38,000 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE TRANSPLANT HOUSE | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC | $20,000 |
| ST JOHNS ARMENIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF THE VARTAN INC | $10,000 |
| NTL ASSOC FOR ARM STUDIES RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC7× · 2018–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +159% · 33% of their budget
- GOGIFT OF LIFE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +24%
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY7× · 2018–2025 · $144k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BFBEAUMONT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k
- MMMCLAREN-NORTHERN MI HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
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.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 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.
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 FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION AND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TROY ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S NORTHWESTERN ACADEMIES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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