Massachusetts · Private foundation
Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust
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.
- $24k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $9,630
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $547k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $24k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $26k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $31k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $41k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $24k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $31k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knights of Vartan Inc | $11,230 | 8 | n/a |
| National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Fair Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 19% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $6,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Fund for Armenian Relief Inc | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Clark University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Armenian National Committee of America | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Footpath Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $3,250 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: John Mirak Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust · Aurelian and Anahid Mardirosian Charitable Foundation Inc · Zartarian Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Hagopian Family Foundation · Armenia Empyrean Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust
- How much does Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust give?
- Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust reported 24 grants totaling $23,706 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Knights of Vartan Inc ($11k), National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ($11k), Friends of the Fair Inc ($8k).
- Does Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John Mirak Foundation, Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc, The Parsekian Foundation Inc.
- Where is Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust based?
- Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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