New Jersey · Private foundation
Nazarian 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.
- $639k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $230,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Nazarian Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 24 | $639k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $696k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $837k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $723k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $526k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $821k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $880k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $659k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | $1,158,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fund for Armenian Relief Inc | $712,225 | 9 | 3% |
| Diocese of the Armenian Church of America | $534,520 | 8 | n/a |
| Link Education Partners Inc | $251,700 | 9 | 3% |
| Tekeyan Cultural Association Inc | $130,750 | 4 | 2% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Clark University | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $91,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Leon Armenian Church | $88,025 | 8 | n/a |
| American University of Armenia Corporation | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nazarian Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 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: John Mirak Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · Sjs Charitable Trust · Armenian General Benevolent Union · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · United Armenian Charities Inc · TF Educational Foundation
How this is measured
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About Nazarian Family Foundation
- How much does Nazarian Family Foundation give?
- Nazarian Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $639,425 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nazarian Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Membership Benefit (29%), Education (24%), International (13%).
- Who are Nazarian Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wesleyan University ($1.2M), Fund for Armenian Relief Inc ($712k), Diocese of the Armenian Church of America ($535k).
- Does Nazarian Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nazarian 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 Nazarian Family Foundation?
- 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 Nazarian Family Foundation based?
- Nazarian Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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