· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of The Asbed B Zakarian & Margaret Zakarian Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in NH; by stated purpose, 17%.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $288k · revenue +71%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $28k · revenue +95%- 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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEAM ARMENIA BASKETBALL ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Asbed B Zakarian & Margaret Zakarian Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Asbed B Zakarian & Margaret Zakarian Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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