Massachusetts · Private foundation
Robert a Semonian Charitable 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.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- 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, 14% of the organizations Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 18 | $300k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $279k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $270k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $287k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $321k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $234k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund for Armenian Relief Inc | $287,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $245,200 | 5 | 4% |
| The Armenian Eyecare Project | $88,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Fast | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| St James Armenian Church | $37,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Knights of Vartan | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Ararat Association Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 24% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund for Armenian Relief Inc | $287,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $245,200 | 5 | 4% |
| The Armenian Eyecare Project | $88,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Fast | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| St James Armenian Church | $37,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Knights of Vartan | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Ararat Association Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 24% |
| City of Smile - USA Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Armenian Museum of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Welcome Home Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Miami | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Haymakers for Hope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($785k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · United Armenian Charities Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Zartarian Foundation · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · Ucla Foundation · Jilmar Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust
- How much does Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust give?
- Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (40%), Religion (22%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Fund for Armenian Relief Inc ($287k), Armenian Assembly of America Inc ($245k), The Armenian Eyecare Project ($88k).
- Does Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust 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 Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Mosesian Family Foundation, John Mirak Foundation, United Armenian Charities Inc.
- Where is Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust based?
- Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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