· Private foundation
Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TACOMA YOUTH CHORUS | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAKEWOOD | $4,325 |
| YWCA PIERCE COUNTY | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| ST SARKIS ARMENIAN CHURCH OF SAN DIEGO | $3,500 |
| DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA (EASTERN) | $2,000 |
| GREENTIKE (CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TACOMA) | $1,500 |
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC | $1,000 |
| TACOMA OPERA | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $650 |
| EXECUTIVE COUNCIL FOR THE JOB CARR CABIN MUSEUM | $500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $500 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $250 |
| KBTC ASSOCIATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FFFRANCISCAN FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +16%
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE7× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +81%
- GGREENTRIKE8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN GARABED ARMENIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $7k
- CFCHI FRANCISCAN HOSPICE HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TUTacoma Urban Performing Arts Centerone grant, 2024 · $3k
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 enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Acting as a catalyst, connector, and knowledge facilitator to build racially equitable, accessible, inclusive pierce county where all people can shape and activate the systems that affect our communities, now and for generations to come.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 TACOMA YOUTH CHORUS ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lakewood ↗
- Who funds ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE COUNCIL FOR THE JOB CARR CABIN ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE PLACE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KBTC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds AMERICUS-SUMTER FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Art Museum ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
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: Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Forest Foundation · LT Murray Family Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Names Family Foundation · Oscar T and Olivann Hokold 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 Zari and Gregory Semerdjian 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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