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Kazarian Donations Trust

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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of KAZARIAN DONATIONS TRUST’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.

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF PORTUGAL INC$18,000
SAINTS SAHAG & MESROB ARMENIAN CHURCH$7,000
PAWTUCKET HALL OF FAME$3,000
STS VARTANANTZ ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH$2,000
CHABAD CHAI CENTER OF WEST BAY$2,000
OGAN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RI$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL$1,000
MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES$1,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$1,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$1,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,000
ORRAN$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ORRAN: $10k → 14%ORRAN: $2k → 14%ORRAN: $2k → 14%ORRAN: $1k → 14%ORRAN: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$533k · 29 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
17

Total granted

$533k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+133%

Still filing today

62%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +132%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +48%
  • AF
    American Friends of Chabad of Portugal
    2× · 2024–2025 · $29k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHARLES & AGNES KAZARIAN FOUNDATION C/O PAUL B KAZARIANgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +133%
  • FB
    FALL BALL FOR DANA FARBER
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Arpi Publishing

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…

Arts & Culture
3
American University of Armenia Corporation

Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).

Education
4
The Amer Research Inst of the South Cauc

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) encourages and supports scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) across all disciplines of the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.…

International
5
American College of Radiology Association

The purpose of the association is the promotion of educational and professional association interests including but not limited to the promotion of the interests of radiology and the interests and study of the socioeconomic aspects of the…

Community Improvement
6
Armenian National Committee of America Western Region

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…

Civil Rights
7
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
8
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

10
American College of Radiology Foundation

The mission of the acr foundation is to advance the profession and practice of radiology to benefit patients with a specific emphasis on health policy research.

Philanthropy
11
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsCommunity Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Muslim Community Organizati…Cancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,538

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.

04the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
21/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINTS SAHAG AND MESROB ARMENIAN CHURCH — $83,725 · OtherSAINTS SAHAG AND MESROB ARMENIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $79,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHABAD CHAI CENTER OF WEST BAY — $23,000 · OtherCHABAD CHAI CENTER OF WEST BAYCITY OF PAWTUCKET DEPT OF PLANNING & REDEVELOPMENT — $13,500 · OtherFALL BALL FOR DANA FARBER — $12,500 · OtherTHE CHARLES & AGNES KAZARIAN FOUNDATION C/O PAUL B KAZARIAN — $15,146 · OtherORRAN — $16,000 · Other+24 more — $106,457 · Other+24 moreCREATIVE ARMENIA — $30,000 · InternationalCREATIVE ARMEN…ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC — $27,000 · InternationalANCA ENDOWMENT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $12,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $7,000 · InternationalARMENIAN ASSEM…FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC — $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF FON…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $40,000 · HealthDana-Farbe…The Miriam Hospital Foundation — $12,000 · HealthThe Miriam…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $4,000 · HealthMEMORIAL S…FIGHTING CHANCE INC — $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $18,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF RI — $10,000 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $33,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $4,000 · Civil RightsPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $26,667 · EducationPROVIDENCE PROMISE — $10,000 · EducationAmerican Friends of Chabad of Portugal — $28,500 · Religion
Other$349,828International$81,500Health$58,000Arts & Culture$39,000Civil Rights$37,000Education$36,667Religion$28,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ARMENIA — $30,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chabad of Portugal — $28,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC — $27,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $26,667 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetORRAN — $16,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHARLES & AGNES KAZARIAN FOUNDATION C/O PAUL B KAZARIAN — $15,146 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $12,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF RI — $10,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHTING CHANCE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds CREATIVE ARMENIA
  • Who funds American Friends of Chabad of Portugal
  • Who funds ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
  • Who funds ORRAN
  • Who funds THE CHARLES & AGNES KAZARIAN FOUNDATION C/O PAUL B KAZARIAN
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC
  • Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
  • Who funds ARMENIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF RI
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE
  • Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC
  • Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER

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.

Kasper and Siroon Hovannisian Family Cultural FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kasper and Siroon Hovannisian Family Cultural Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Kazarian Donations Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kazarian Donations Trust?

Find your warmest path to Kazarian Donations Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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