· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAASR | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| AGBU | $40,000 |
| ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ARMENIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRANS | $20,000 |
| ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ARMENIAN TREE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| PROJECT SAVE PHOTO ARCHIVE | $10,000 |
| WELCOME HOME | $10,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF VARTAN | $5,000 |
| ST JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE DANA FARBER | $5,000 |
| HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE | $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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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 +79% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC3× · 2021–2023 · $287k · revenue +79%
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +8%
- TATHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT3× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF FASTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
- AFARMENIA FUND FOR ARTSAKHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- AFARMENIA FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -98%
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.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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…
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.…
Further education
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
Serves the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seeks to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation.
Is public charity organization, to help to develop communities in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAST ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF ↗
- Who funds THE ARARAT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF SMILE - USA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF ↗
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: 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
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 Robert a Semonian Charitable 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% 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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