Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Armenian Cultural Foundation
Armenian Cultural Foundation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200,490 to it, the largest being John Mirak Foundation ($1,166,340). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Armenian General Benevolent Unionshared fundersportfolio match
- The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Sjs Charitable Trustshared funders
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150k → $223k.
From the IRS filings of Armenian Cultural Foundation’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 Cultural Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of Armenian Cultural Foundation's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 111 organizations that share them.
- Armenian General Benevolent Unionshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Armen and Gloria Hampar Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sjs Charitable Trustshared fundersNY · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- The Gaska Alliance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Galadjian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George Ignatius Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Parsekian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TF Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vartkess & Rita Balian Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert a Semonian Charitable Trustshared fundersMA · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Armenian Cultural Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Armenian Cultural Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Armenian Cultural Foundation?
- Armenian Cultural Foundation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200,490 to it, the largest being John Mirak Foundation ($1,166,340). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Armenian Cultural Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,200,490 in grants to Armenian Cultural Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Armenian Cultural Foundation?
- John Mirak Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,166,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Armenian Cultural Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing