· Private foundation
The Parsekian Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of The Parsekian Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Parsekian Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $11k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Armenia Fund | $5,000 |
| Friends of Hrant Dink | $2,500 |
| Armenian Assembly of America Inc | $1,100 |
| Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund | $1,000 |
| National Association of Armenian Studies & Research | $1,000 |
| Project Save | $450 |
| Tekeyan Cultural Association | $250 |
| Armenian Technology Group Inc | $100 |
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of your 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.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
- FOFRIENDS OF HRANT DINK INC5× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +82%
- TCTEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +141%
- AAARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC4× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +293%
Funded once
- SNSAYAT NOVA DANCE COMPANYone grant, 2017 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ANARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +93%
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.
Education about armenia & caucasu region
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
Further education
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…
Research, study and document ancient Armenian architecture.
To Promote education and cultural awareness of historical events
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Assembly of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Paros 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 37 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 11% 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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 51 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HRANT DINK INC ↗
- Who funds TEKEYAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Knights of Vartan Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Houshamadyan Educational Association ↗
- Who funds ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Organization of Istanbul Armenians ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IF AMERICANS KNEW ↗
- Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE ARMENIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP 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: John Mirak Foundation · Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Inc · Nazarian Family Foundation · United Armenian Charities Inc · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · Cherchian Family Foundation Inc · Afeyan Family Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation
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 Parsekian Foundation Inc 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 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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