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Armenia Empyrean 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VEM USA INC | $110,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FAST | $35,000 |
| VEM USA INC | $30,000 |
| YERAZART INC | $25,000 |
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION | $25,000 |
| ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMENS ASSOCIATION INC | $10,150 |
| ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INC | $3,600 |
| ST JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| GOALS FOR GIRLS INC | $1,100 |
| ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER B | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY CORP | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- YIYERAZART INC8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +131% · 89% of their budget
- VUVEM USA4× · 2021–2024 · $187k · revenue +260%
- FOFRIENDS OF FAST2× · 2023–2024 · $69k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- 1L100 LIVES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- THTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +179%
- AHAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +152%
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.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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 armenian contemporary experimental art
Further education
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 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.…
Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage
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…
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
Educate youth about armenian heritage, history, and culture. create opportunities for american-armenian youth to gain leadership experience in their communities around the united states. provide opportunities for armenian-american youth…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Marys University of Minnesota. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 VEM USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAST ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ↗
- Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Medical Association ↗
- Who funds ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY CORP ↗
- Who funds Goals for Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GREATER BOSTON TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds Boston Children's Heart Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF EASTERN USA 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: Afeyan Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · Ucla Foundation · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Avedisian 575 Foundation Inc · Nazareth & Nila Festekjian Family Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · K George & Carolann Najarian Charitable Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family 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 Armenia Empyrean 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.
- Boston Children's Heart Foundation Inc — 1% 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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