Washington · 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.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $638k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $43k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $52k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $33k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $31k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $35k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $21k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $22k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $22k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tacoma Youth Chorus | $139,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Franciscan Foundation | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| YWCA Pierce County | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Health Care | $5,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Greentrike | $5,425 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Lakewood | $4,825 | 2 | 0% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $4,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Executive Council for the Job Carr Cabin | $3,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catherine Place | $2,000 | 7 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tacoma Youth Chorus | $139,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Franciscan Foundation | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| YWCA Pierce County | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Health Care | $5,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Greentrike | $5,425 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Lakewood | $4,825 | 2 | 0% |
| St Nersess Armenian Seminary Inc | $4,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Executive Council for the Job Carr Cabin | $3,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catherine Place | $2,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Diocese of the Armenian Church of America | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kbtc Association | $1,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Museum of Glass | $1,175 | 2 | 0% |
| Cascade Public Media | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Americus-Sumter Fuller Center for Housing | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tacoma Art Museum | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Art Museum | $950 | 3 | 0% |
| Annie Wright Schools | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ararat Home of Los Angeles | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Fuller Center for Housing Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation
- How much does Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation give?
- Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $43,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (64%), Religion (11%), Health (10%).
- Who are Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tacoma Youth Chorus ($139k), Franciscan Foundation ($19k), YWCA Pierce County ($11k).
- Does Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable 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 Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai, The Bamford Foundation, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation.
- Where is Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation based?
- Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation is based in WA.
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