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Simonian Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
73% of Simonian Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to King Baudouin Foundation Us Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+3 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Myriad USA-FKA King Baudouin Founda | $9,432,495 |
| Armenian American Museum | $2,000,000 |
| After School All Stars | $1,357,000 |
| GOLDIE HAWN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Armenia Hearing Aid Project | $1,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- AAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS3× · 2022–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +9%
- AAArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +233%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $60k
Funded once
- BBABY2BABYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +72%
- PBPARIS BRAIN INSTITUTE AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $35k
- UFUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -5%
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).
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To eliminate preventable blindness for armenian children and adults by providing medical care and surgery, screening and education, as well as conducting eyecare research.
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…
Education about armenia & caucasu region
Create and maintain innovative health care programs in armenia, performing cochlear implants and bone anchored aid (baha) surgeries, newborn hearing screening and training future otologists in armenia.
Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage
To educate and promote the history & heritage of the armenian community.
To provide excellence in education, to participate in the advancement of knowledge through research, and to serve the people of the middle east and beyond. chartered in new york state in 1863, the university bases its educational…
COAFs goal is to empower the younger generation of Armenians living in the country's impoverished and neglected rural villages.While COAF's work is all-encompassing, the emphasis is on education. The organizations work combines…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Armenia Hearing Aid Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds THE HAWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARIS BRAIN INSTITUTE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ZERUZERU ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA HEARING AID PROJECT ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Simonian Family 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.
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.
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