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Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENVOLENT UNION | $50,000 |
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENVOLENT UNION | $8,000 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENVOLENT UNION | $5,000 |
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENVOLENT UNION | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| CARNEGIE HALL A CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| ST THOMAS ARMENIAN CHURCH | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- VUVEM USA4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +488%
- COCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +40%
Northwestern University4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AGARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -21%
- DSDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +42%
- HSHOVNANIAN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
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…
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Founded in 1955, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is an independent non-profit membership organization, and one of the world's leading Armenian Studies centers and rare book libraries. NAASR advances…
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…
Serves the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seeks to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation.
Further education
Provide cultural and educational services to the armenian community
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…
Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian General Benevolent Union and the most unlike its peers is Vem Usa. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. 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 10% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 YERAZART INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION GROUP ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ↗
- Who funds VEM USA ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds HOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN AMERICAN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ORGANIZATION 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: 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
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 Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family 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.
- Bergen Family Center — 25% of income from government
- Hovnanian School Inc — 0% 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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