· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FRIENDS OF JEAN ARMENIA BASKETBALL | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF | $10,000 |
| EVN NEWS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WELLS MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC | $8,500 |
| ANDIAMO MOTORCYCLE CHARITY RUN | $6,200 |
| NAASR | $5,000 |
| STSARKIA ARMENIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- ARARMENIAN RADIO HOUR OF NJone grant, 2017 · $30k
- NONOR OR PUBLISHING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
- FPFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +81%
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.
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…
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 111 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 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 FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Zoryan Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nazarian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nazarian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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