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K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation at a glance

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K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k
Granted FY2021
12
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$137kInternational$113kPhilanthropy$93kEducation$71kHealth$56kHuman Services$35kCivil Rights$16kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2021 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tufenkian Foundation$12,000
Armenian American Medical Association Inc$10,000
Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School$7,500
Armenian International Women's Association$5,000
Cape Cod Repertory Theater$5,000
Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry$1,000
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research$1,000
Project Save Armenian Photograph Archives Inc$500
The ARC of Northern Virginia$300
Sayat Nova Dance Company$250
Orleans Pond Coalition$100
Doctors Without Borders USA$100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GURGEN MELIKYAN MULTICHILDREN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%GURGEN MELIKYAN MULTICHILDREN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%Gurgen Melikyan Multichildren Family Foundation: $5k → 14%GURGEN MELIKYAN MULTICHILDREN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
DC
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$467k · 16 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$467k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+8%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
InternationalHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AA
    Armenian American Medical Association
    2× · 2020–2021 · $43k · revenue +59%
  • TC
    THE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +101%
  • MORE THAN WORDS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $13k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • SS
    ST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • C
    CIVILNET
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • PB
    PLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +8%
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
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
2
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc
International
3
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
4
Armenian Sports Hall of Fame
—
5
The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc
—
6
Armenian Professional Society Scholarship Fund

Further education

Arts & Culture
7
Armenian National Institute Inc

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…

International
8
New York Armenian Home Inc
Human Services
9
Armenian Technology Group Inc

The armenian technology group (atg) is dedicated to helping guide the republic of armenia toward food and agricultural self-sufficiency.

International
10
The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
11
Armenian Center for Natl & Intlstudies

To provide an educational resource and research base for students, teachers, and policymakers on a comprehensive agenda of foreign and domestic issues mainly on achieving peace, stability and cooperation in the region and building…

International
12
Amin Arasteh Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anca Endowment Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pare Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc: $62,000 · OtherNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research IncArmenia Fund (AMARAS): $55,000 · OtherArmenia Fund (AMARAS)CAPE COD REPERTORY THEATER: $55,000 · OtherCAPE COD REPERTORY THEATERST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCIVILNET: $15,000 · OtherCambridge Rindge and Latin School: $15,000 · OtherCAMBRIDGE RINDGE AND LATIN: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,432 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INC: $12,750 · Other+15 more: $17,352 · Other+15 moreTUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC: $92,450 · PhilanthropyTUFENKIAN FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyArmenian American Medical Association: $43,000 · HealthArmenian Ame…ARMENIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY CORP: $12,500 · HealthARMENIAN BON…ARAHED FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthARAHED FOUND…ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI: $31,595 · InternationalARMENIAN IN…THE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalTHE CIVILIT…+3 more: $2,100 · InternationalGURGEN MELIKYAN MULTICHILDREN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesPLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $7,500 · Education
Other$285,534Philanthropy$93,450Health$60,500International$53,695Human Services$35,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Education$7,500

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 budgetTUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC: $92,450 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc: $62,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetArmenian American Medical Association: $43,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetGURGEN MELIKYAN MULTICHILDREN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI: $31,595 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CIVILITAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $12,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARMENIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY CORP: $12,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARAHED FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetPROJECT SAVE ARMENIAN PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVES INC: $1,634 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Northern Virginia: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORLEANS POND COALITION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 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.

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.

Armenia Empyrean Foun…John Mirak FoundationThe Parsekian Foundat…The Vahik & Alice Pet…Afeyan Family Foundat…Jhm Charitable Founda…The Stephen Philibosi…Tufenkian Foundation …Charles Mosesian Fami…Nazarian Family Found…Sami & Annie Totah Fa…National Philanthropi…
Armenia Empyrean FoundationDE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Armenia Empyrean Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · Tufenkian Foundation Inc · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 37 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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