How much does The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn give?

The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn reported 53 grants totaling $393,077 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (10%).

Who are The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mds Foundation Inc ($115k), National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ($107k), Armenian International Dental Association Inc ($65k).

Does The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn, Analog Devices Foundation.

Where is The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn based?

The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn is based in MA.

The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn

The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$393k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$51k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$527kHealth$261kArts & Culture$141kInternational$80kAnimals$52kReligion$36kHuman Services$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k42 grants · $152k
$10k–50k10 grants · $190k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Microsoft Corp Held For Invstmt.

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Armenian Museum of America	$51,000
University of Rhode Island	$35,000
St James Armenian Apostolic Church	$25,000
Belmont Media Center Inc	$25,000
MDS Foundation Inc	$20,000
Natl Assn for Armenian Studies and	$20,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital	$20,000
Ethnic Arts Center of Somerville In	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
Visiting Dental Hygiene Inc	$10,000
Belmont Public Library	$7,000
MA Audobon Society	$5,077
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
Project SAVE Archives	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 57 repeat orgs$299k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+25%

Still filing today

54%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MF
MDS FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +135%
AM
ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +99%
MA
MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL
9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +22%

Funded once

AI
ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -76% · 43% of their budget
TO
TOWN OF BELMONT
one grant, 2023 · $25k
N
NAASR
one grant, 2017 · $15k

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.

04Its field

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.

Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Berkshire Faculty Services Inc

The mission of berkshire faculty services is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive and personalized environment.

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health

Berkshire Health Systems Inc

The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.

Health

Boston Medical Center Corporation

Boston medical center's mission is to provide consistently excellent and accessible health services to all in need of care regardless of status and ability to pay.

Health

Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health

Boston Foundation Inc

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:…

Philanthropy

Massachusetts Bankers Association Inc

The massachusetts bankers association was founded in 1905 with a guiding principle to promote banking within the commonwealth. a key part of that mission is to provide our members, the public and media with up-to-date information relating…

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Massachusetts Dental Society

Empowering dental health professionals throughout their careers.

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The Massachusetts Society for Medical Research Inc

To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Belmont Public Library Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 93 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

30/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,189,998Philanthropy$121,753Health$98,921Arts & Culture$96,500International$94,561Education$92,852Human Services$52,738

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.

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.

Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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