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Zartarian 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ARMENIAN MISSONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $2,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION | $2,000 |
| FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF | $1,250 |
| ARMENIAN WOMEN'S WELFARE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND | $1,000 |
| THE JIMMY FUND | $1,000 |
| PROJECT SAVE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
56 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 16 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +106%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue ×34- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK (BOSTON FOOD)one grant, 2021 · $4k
- PSPINE STREET INN (PINE STREET)one grant, 2021 · $2k
- CRCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND (CROSSROADS)one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armenian Women's Welfare Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Voice of the Armenian Church Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 106 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 RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOICE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUDC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Leon and Marion Semonian Charitable Trust · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Robert a Semonian Charitable Trust · Hagopian Family Foundation · Bedrosian Foundation · Levon & Claudia Nazarian Family Foundation Inc (Levon Nazarian Fd'N) · Charles Mosesian Family Foundation · Afeyan Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Sarkisian 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 Zartarian 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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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