· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRANS | $20,000 |
| ARMENIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| PROJECT SAVE PHOTO ARCHIVE | $10,000 |
| ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ARMENIAN TREE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| WELCOME HOME | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES ARMENIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST STEPHENS ARMENIAN ELEM SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF VARTAN | $5,000 |
| HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE | $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 (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. 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 +79% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- AFARMENIA FUND FOR ARTSAKHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- AFARMENIA FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -98%
- FOFRIENDS OF FASTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
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.
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
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAST ↗
- 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 CITY OF SMILE - USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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