Delaware · Private foundation
Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family 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.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $89k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $81k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $83k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $97k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $72k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $45k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armenian General Benevolent Union Group | $118,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Yerazart Inc | $69,000 | 3 | 33% |
| Armenian General Benevolent Union | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vem USA | $32,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dwight-Englewood School | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Diocese of the Armenian Church of America | $19,500 | 5 | n/a |
| St Thomas Armenian Church | $14,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc | $9,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armenian General Benevolent Union Group | $118,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Yerazart Inc | $69,000 | 3 | 33% |
| Armenian General Benevolent Union | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vem USA | $32,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dwight-Englewood School | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Diocese of the Armenian Church of America | $19,500 | 5 | n/a |
| St Thomas Armenian Church | $14,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc | $9,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tekeyan Cultural Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hovnanian School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American University of Beirut | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bergen Family Center | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carnegie Hall Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Armenian American Health Professionals Organization Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 1% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Armenian Eyecare Project | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Nazarian Family Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · The Jirair S and Elizabeth Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc · Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · The James H and Marta T Batmasian Family Foundation Inc · Balakian Family Foundation · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation
- How much does Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation give?
- Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $90,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Membership Benefit (31%), Arts & Culture (30%), International (20%).
- Who are Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Armenian General Benevolent Union Group ($118k), Yerazart Inc ($69k), Armenian General Benevolent Union ($50k).
- Does Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation 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 Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nazarian Family Foundation, Afeyan Family Foundation, Armenia Empyrean Foundation.
- Where is Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation based?
- Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation is based in DE.
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