· Private foundation
Sarkisian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| ARMENIAN MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL UNION OF NA | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (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. 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 +78% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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 27 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 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 YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sarkisian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarkisian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Center Corporation: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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