Indiana · Private foundation
Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc
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.
- $444k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | $444k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $595k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $562k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $317k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $407k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $438k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $400k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $200k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Right to Life Educational Trust Fund | $1,168,920 | 9 | 63% |
| The Institute for Family Studies | $212,500 | 8 | 7% |
| Jm Educational Group | $210,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Mother Hubbards Cupboard Inc | $198,000 | 5 | 10% |
| The Institute on Religion and Public Life Inc | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Catholic Bioethics Center | $107,900 | 8 | n/a |
| St Joseph the Protector Fdn Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| American Spectator Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Saint Benedict Classical Catholic School Corporation | $50,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bloomington Health Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Curry Family Foundation Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · Freeman-Spicer Charities · United Way of South Central Indiana · Asante Foundation Inc · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc
How this is measured
Compare Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc
- How much does Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc give?
- Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $444,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (39%), Religion (20%), Education (14%).
- Who are Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indiana Right to Life Educational Trust Fund ($1.2M), The Institute for Family Studies ($213k), Jm Educational Group ($210k).
- Does Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc 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 Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc based?
- Sarkes and Mary Tarzian Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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