· Private foundation
Sarkisian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN DIOCESE OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS | $12,000 |
| AMAA | $12,000 |
| HOLY CROSS ARMENIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $3,501 |
| MERCY CENTER | $3,000 |
| ARMENIA FUND | $2,500 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| ARMENIAN MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL UNION OF NA | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% 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 +78% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +15%
Compassion International Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +16%- MCMERCY CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +531%
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHURCH LAKE FORESTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF ARIZONAone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +40%
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.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
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…
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…
Serves the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seeks to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation.
To serve the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seek to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation throughout the world. moreover, to aid people in need, armenian and non-armenian, due to natural and man-made…
Helps children, elderly and families in armenia with basic humanitarian and spiritual needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth On Their Own. 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 27 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WORSHIP HOUR ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California ↗
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: Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Ayvazian Family Foundation · Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation · United Armenian Charities Inc · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Zartarian Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · George Ignatius Foundation · Ara & Edma Dumanian Foundation
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 Sarkisian 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% 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.