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The Asbed B Zakarian & Margaret Zakarian Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE ASBED B ZAKARIAN & MARGARET ZAKARIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA | $260,000 |
| EASTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TEAM ARMENIA BASKETBALL | $100,000 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA (EASTERN) | $100,000 |
| ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION | $12,500 |
| ARMENIAN CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOR | $10,500 |
| ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH OF GREATER BOSTON | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of The Asbed B Zakarian & Margaret Zakarian Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in NH; read by stated purpose it is 17% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $288k · revenue +71%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $28k · revenue +73%- FFFUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +79%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +33%- KOKNIGHTS OF ST JAMES JERUSALEM ARMENIANone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -98% · 52% of their budget
- SNST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +60%
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.
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Education about armenia & caucasu region
Further education
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
The Principal Objective of ARPA is to Promote International Cooperation and Understanding Within the World Community. Through the Provision of Consulting, Analysis, Research and Planning Services, in: Education, Economics, Policy, Health…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEAM ARMENIA BASKETBALL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF ST JAMES JERUSALEM ARMENIAN ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF ARMENIAN EXECUTIVES 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: Sjs Charitable Trust · Nazarian Family Foundation · United Armenian Charities Inc · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · The James H and Marta T Batmasian Family Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Asbed B Zakarian & Margaret Zakarian Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% 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.
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