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Fesjian Foundation at a glance

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Fesjian Foundation

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.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$86kReligion$63kMembership Benefit$23kCrime & Legal$17kInternational$8kRecreation & Sports$8kEducation$5kSocial Science$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER$60,000
ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION$20,000
UNIV OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW DEANS FUND$10,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$1,000
ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION$600
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARMENIA EYECARE PROJECT: $1k → 10%DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH: $60k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $60k → 28%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $1k → 9%ALS ASSOCIATION OF CT: $1k → 12%UNIV OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW DEANS FUND: $10k → 13%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION: $600 → 7%ARMENIA EYECARE PROJECT: $1k → 10%FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF: $1k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3k → 28%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $1k → 9%ALS ASSOCIATION OF CT: $1k → 12%UNIV OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW DEANS FUND: $3k → 13%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION: $600 → 7%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ARMENIA EYECARE PROJECT: $1k → 10%FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF: $1k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3k → 28%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $1k → 9%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%UNIV OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW DEANS FUND: $3k → 13%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION: $600 → 7%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ARMENIA EYECARE PROJECT: $1k → 10%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3k → 28%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $1k → 9%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%UNIV OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW DEANS FUND: $1k → 13%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ARMENIA FUND USA: $1k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3k → 28%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION: $20k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3k → 28%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND: $1k → 7%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION: $2k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION: $1k → 17%GAMES FOR CHANGE: $5k → 17%GAMES FOR CHANGE: $3k → 17%CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND: $1k → 17%CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND: $1k → 17%CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND: $1k → 17%CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND: $1k → 17%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 13 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$153k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+278%

Still filing today

38%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalOther
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

  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • TA
    THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +79%
  • CO
    CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • AF
    Armenia Fund USA Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • AW
    ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +278%
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 Sports Hall of Fame
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2
Armenian International Medical Fund Aim Fund

Create and maintain innovative health care programs in armenia, performing cochlear implants and bone anchored aid (baha) surgeries, newborn hearing screening and training future otologists in armenia.

Health
3
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
4
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
5
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
6
Advance Armenia Foundation

Volunteer-led medical and technological mission to areas of Armenia under-served and promote economic and cultural ties between United States and Armenia

International
7
Medarmeniaphilanthropy Inc

To serve all types of medical needs of underserved population of armenia with the focus on rural border villages. to provide basic and advanced medical supplies and equipment, staffing the rural medical centers with the presence of…

Health
8
Armenia Fund Inc

Support the people of armenia.

Philanthropy
9
Amin Arasteh Foundation
—
10
Eternal Nation Foundation Inc

We are the restorers of the future for the new generation of armenians impacted by wars and catastrophes through comprehensive rehabilitative healthcare. our projects range from short-term actions in response to a specific urgent need, to…

Human Services
11
The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Future of Armenia

The mission of Future of Armenia is to improve the quality of life of the people in Armenia, especially its servicemen and their families. A humanitarian organization, Future of Armenia channels donor funds to support those impacted by the…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Armenian Relief Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Hospital. 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

8 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. 8 of the 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCHARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION: $23,000 · OtherARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNIONUNIV OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW DEANS FUND: $17,200 · OtherUNIV OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW DEANS FUNDGAMES FOR CHANGE: $8,000 · OtherGAMES FOR CHANGEYALE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $7,600 · Other+5 moreMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $4,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF: $4,000 · InternationalFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC: $2,000 · InternationalARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $1,000 · International
Other$125,800Health$84,000International$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArmenia Fund USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds Armenia Fund USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION 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.

Armenian General Bene…Fidelity Investments …
Armenian General Benevolent UnionNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Armenian General Benevolent Union · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Fesjian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fesjian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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 18 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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