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John Mirak Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $436k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Armenian Cultural Foundation | $161,340 |
| Armenia Tree Project | $104,500 |
| Fund for Armenian Relief | $70,000 |
| Paros Foundation | $50,000 |
| AYG Foundation | $50,000 |
| Autism National Fund | $40,000 |
| Children of Armenia Fund | $30,000 |
| Food Link Inc | $25,000 |
| TUMO | $25,000 |
| Tufenkian Foundation | $20,000 |
| Armenian Int'l Womens Assoc | $17,500 |
| Givat Haviva Educational Foundation | $15,000 |
| Armenian Missionary Assoc of America inc | $5,500 |
| The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children | $5,250 |
| Armenian Assembly of America | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $266k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +64% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- ACArmenian Cultural Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8% · 87% of their budget
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $970k · revenue +293%
- TPTHE PAROS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- AAArmenian American Medical Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +59%
- MFMultiple foreign charitiesone grant, 2017 · $35k
- AHARMENIAN HERITAGE TRIBUTE AND GENOCIDE Mone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -64%
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.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Provide cultural and educational services to the armenian community
To promote understanding of the armenian genocide through research, analysis, publication, and public forums; to collect and organize documentation attesting to and preserving the memory of the armenian genocide; and to increase public…
Armenian film society celebrates armenian culture through year-round programming of film screenings, discussions, workshop, and lectures. it shines a spotlight on armenian films and filmmakers, as week as films that deal with armenian…
Collect and display armenian photographs
Education about armenia & caucasu region
The mission of the armenian historical association of rhode island is to promote armenian culture, heritage and history in the state of rhode island while preserving its ethnic heritage through public exhibitions, displays, artifacts and…
To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events
To educate the public on the Armenian American story and culture.
Serves the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seeks to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Women's Welfare Association 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.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 75 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 Armenian Cultural Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
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- Who funds AYG Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Medical Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON EATS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN HERITAGE TRIBUTE AND GENOCIDE M ↗
- Who funds Arlington HHS Charitable Corp ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CORPORATION OF ARLINGTON ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Zoryan Institute 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: Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Nazarian Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Zartarian Foundation · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Armenian Charities Inc · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc
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 John Mirak Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- Arlington Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Cooperative Elder Services Inc — 36% of income from government
- Cyrus E Dallin Art Museum Inc — 21% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
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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