· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES ARMENIAN APOSTOL | $9,630 |
| METROWEST DI FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| HADASSAH | $2,000 |
| PMC LESLIE'S LINKS DANA FARBER | $1,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEACH HOS | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN YOUTH FEDERATION | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| NAASR | $1,000 |
| THE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN APO | $830 |
| AYF OLYMPICS AD BOOK | $505 |
| DANA- FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $500 |
| ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN CHURCH | $416 |
| ST GEORGE CATHEDRAL | $200 |
| ARMENIAN TREE PROJECT | $200 |
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 (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 12 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, 66% 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
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FAIR INC3× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +387%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +62%- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FASTone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AHARMENIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
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…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
Promotion of scholarly research on and in iraq and ancient mesopotamia. taarii raises funds for graduate and post-graduate fellowships for americans and for iraqi academics to perform research work on iraq in a broad range of disciplines.
The anca-wr works in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the western united states to actively advance the concerns of the armenian american community on a range of issues. these issues include…
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) encourages and supports scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) across all disciplines of the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.…
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…
Humans are endowed with innate creative abilities; we have formed civilizations and societies, framed laws, built architectural marvels and created cultural masterpieces. it is our creative abilities that have allowed us to produce…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 101 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 National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FOOTPATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARARAT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Armenian Youth Federation ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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