Illinois · Private foundation
Sarkisian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $67k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $721k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Sarkisian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 13 | $67k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $52k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $40k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $84k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $87k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $72,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc | $36,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Holy Cross Armenian Church | $29,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $24,721 | 6 | n/a |
| Mercy Center Corporation | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mission Aviation Fellowship | $13,000 | 6 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $12,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Armenian Evangelical Union of North America | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $72,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc | $36,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Holy Cross Armenian Church | $29,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $24,721 | 6 | n/a |
| Mercy Center Corporation | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mission Aviation Fellowship | $13,000 | 6 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $12,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Armenian Evangelical Union of North America | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Armenian Museum Incorporated | $7,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Youth on Their Own | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christ Church Lake Forest | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Armenian Eyecare Project | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fund for Armenian Relief Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christian Worship Hour | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sarkisian Foundation 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: 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
How this is measured
About Sarkisian Foundation
- How much does Sarkisian Foundation give?
- Sarkisian Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $67,001 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sarkisian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Health (27%), International (10%).
- Who are Sarkisian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc ($72k), Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc ($36k), Holy Cross Armenian Church ($30k).
- Does Sarkisian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sarkisian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sarkisian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N), The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundation, Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation.
- Where is Sarkisian Foundation based?
- Sarkisian Foundation is based in IL.
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