· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TACOMA YOUTH CHORUS | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAKEWOOD | $4,325 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| YWCA PIERCE COUNTY | $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 |
| TACOMA OPERA | $1,000 |
| ST NERSESS ARMENIAN SEMINARY INC | $1,000 |
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $650 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $500 |
| EXECUTIVE COUNCIL FOR THE JOB CARR CABIN MUSEUM | $500 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $250 |
| KBTC ASSOCIATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 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 KBTC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICUS-SUMTER FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zari and Gregory Semerdjian Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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