California · Nonprofit
ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES
ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,000 to it, the largest being CHUBB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $502k
What Armenian Center for Natl & Intlstudies does
Mission
To provide an educational resource and research base for students, teachers, and policymakers on a comprehensive agenda of foreign and domestic issues mainly on achieving peace, stability and cooperation in the region and building democratic institutions and civil society in armenia. This is accomplished through robust conference and seminar series and curriculum, the publication of books and articles, and outreach programs to universities and the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
4a acnis organizes and participates in conferences, workshops and seminars on democracy and public policy education and themes of broad public interest, with the overarching objective of developing the rule of law, civil society, and democratization of domestic institutions as well as conflict resolution and stability in the caucasus region. In 2024, subject matters of broad educational interest included acnis' professionals' presence at a continuing series of forums on the peaceful and lawful resolution of the regional conflicts, armenia's improvements and challenges in the evolution of democratic institutions, and opportunities connected to civil society engagements, and safeguarding the independence of the judiciary. Acnis convened or participated in four remote conferences, workshops, and seminars, held primarily for the benefit of students, academics, and policymakers. Expenses $11,835.
$59,174 spent100% of program spending4b acnis prepares and publishes a weekly review of current affairs and public policy analysis,book reviews, treatments of major social and political developments, articles, and study guides on public participation and multi-track diplomacy in peace processes and the rule of law. The armenian, english and russian language weekly journal of news, opinion and strategic insights are presented in print, via podcast and other social media platforms, offering a wide spectrum of freely expressed policy analyses on armenia and the diaspora and geopolitical perspectives on regional issues. Highlighted are human and civil rights, peace and security in the region and the world, the right to self-determination in democratic communities in the emerging international environment, and conflict resolution approaches. More than fifty articles and interviews were published and made available to the public free of charge and were issued in several languages. As part of this program service, acnis has continued the development of a digital database and library of significant resource materials for use by scholars, students and experts. Expenses $38,462.
4c acnis in 2024 continued into a fourteenth year of a youth education program which was comprised of multi-part instructional sessions offered by acnis staff to two students. The areas of instruction included armenia and regional-based studies related to analyses and advantages of civic engagement and civil society initiatives and activities and the challenges to them in post-soviet environments, judicial and democratic, constitutional and legal bases of the recognition issue, and the right to self-determination. The goal of the youth educational and internship programs is to expose students to information and resources related to factors and challenges for the advancement of peace and security, from the individual to national and international levels. Acnis also continued its working cooperation with local social services centers which address and meet the needs of street children and disadvantaged elderly, providing after-school tutoring, nutrition and recreational activities. Expenses $4,438.
4d acnis organizes and participates in presentations working meetings and consultations on current domestic and foreign policy issues with leaders, representatives, academics, and students from domestic and foreign high schools and universities, research and educational institutions--including but not limited to public libraries, state and private universities, the academy of sciences of the republic of armenia, the united nations and other international organizations, and the diplomatic staff of the united states, north and south american, western and eastern european embassies. Expenses $4,438.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $59,174.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $300k to $502k (+67%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Garin Hovannisian
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $25k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 67% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES?
- ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,000 to it, the largest being CHUBB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $215,000 in grants to ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES?
- CHUBB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARMENIAN CENTER FOR NATL & INTLSTUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing