· Private foundation
The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Microsoft Corp Held For Invstmt.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St James Armenian Apostolic Church | $60,000 |
| MDS Foundation Inc | $30,000 |
| Natl Assn for Armenian Studies and | $20,000 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Ethnic Arts Center of Somerville In | $10,000 |
| Belmont Hill School | $7,000 |
| Educated Canines Asstng w Disabilit | $5,000 |
| Globe Santa Fund Trust | $5,000 |
| Friends of Mt Auburn Cemetery | $5,000 |
| The College Light Opera Company | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Boston Childrens Hospital | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Project SAVE Archives | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 12 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- MFMDS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +135%
- BHBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +141%
- MAMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- AIARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -76% · 43% of their budget
- TOTOWN OF BELMONTone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NNAASRone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…
The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Brendan Grant Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 80 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 MDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Brendan Grant Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BELMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHENERY MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD BASEBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BEE CAUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
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: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn · Analog Devices Foundation · Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · John Mirak Foundation · Nazarian Family Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc
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 The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% 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.