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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $456k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION | $230,500 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| EASTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH | $28,700 |
| LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| ST LEON ARMENIAN CHURCH | $17,025 |
| EVN NEWS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JEAN ARMENIA BASKETBALL | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WELLS MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC | $8,500 |
| ANDIAMO MOTORCYCLE CHARITY RUN | $6,200 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA | $5,000 |
| NAASR | $5,000 |
| HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $20k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +40%
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC9× · 2017–2025 · $712k · revenue +6%
- LELINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $252k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- AWARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +278%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +65%
- NONOR OR PUBLISHING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
The organization's mission is to preserve the western armenian language; createoriginal picture books, contemporary graphic novels, young adult books, andclassroom resources in western armenian; create audio books of all books…
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 organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
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.
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…
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 middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
To serve the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seek to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation throughout the world. moreover, to aid people in need, armenian and non-armenian, due to natural and man-made…
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hovnatan Arts Nyc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 111 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN TO KEEP GUNS OFF CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY MARTYRS ARMENIAN DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Nor Or Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMAN'S CLUB OF ENGLEWOOD ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Zoryan Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Film Office ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EXTENSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANDIAMO MOTORCYCLES CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EASTWEST STUDIES 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: 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
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 Nazarian 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.
- New Jersey Choral Society — 27% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Glassroots Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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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