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The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian 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.

$228k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$5.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$228k14%
FY202320$221k5%
FY202221$295k29%
FY202125$225k16%
FY202026$250k15%
FY201926$258k8%
FY201826$260k15%
FY201726$231kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$701kInternational$667kHealth$141kHuman Services$74kEnvironment$70kReligion$35kArts & Culture$34kCivil Rights$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Paros Foundation$60,00051%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$48,00080%
Salvation Army$21,0008n/a
Franny Strong Foundation Inc$20,500518%
Tekeyan Cultural Association Inc$20,00070%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$19,00080%
Pediatric Cancer Foundation$15,00041%
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries$13,50070%
The Armenian Eyecare Project$12,50040%
Cots$11,50050%
St Johns Armenian Church$11,0002n/a
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$11,00020%
Knights of Vartan Charitable Fund$10,500311%
Anca Endowment Fund Inc$5,00010%
Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund$3,00010%
Charity Navigator$3,00060%
Motor City Mitten Mission$2,00010%
Rush University Medical Center$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Paros Foundation: $60,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $48,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFranny Strong Foundation Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetTekeyan Cultural Association Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetArmenian Assembly of America Inc: $19,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPediatric Cancer Foundation: $15,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Armenian Eyecare Project: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCots: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKnights of Vartan Charitable Fund: $10,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetAnca Endowment Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCharity Navigator: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMotor City Mitten Mission: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Cherchian Family Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · The Parsekian Foundation Inc · John Mirak Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Ucla Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation

How much does The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation give?
The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $228,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), International (34%), Health (7%).
Who are The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Paros Foundation ($60k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($48k), Salvation Army ($21k).
Does The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cherchian Family Foundation Inc, Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc, The Parsekian Foundation Inc.
Where is The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation based?
The Haiganoosh Mengushian Ajemian Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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