Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC
ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,974,736 to it, the largest being JHM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Armenian Museum of America Inc does
Mission
To maintain an active program of collecting, conserving, documenting, and sharing armenian artifacts, books and publications. To preserve for posterity the armenian heritage, both past and present, and to tell the story of the armenian people. To promote awareness and appreciation of the culture and contributions of the armenian people, through exhibitions and diverse educational programs. To serve as a national repository and information center of armenian material culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary purpose of the armenian museum's education and event programs is to carry out the museum's mission, through diverse educational programs and activities. These programs cultivate intellectual curiosity about armenian heritage and engage students and lifelong learners in comprehensive learning. By providing age appropriate, differentiated instruction to address the varied learning styles of visitors, we promote and develop students' self confidence and sense of personal agency. Events that explore rich musical, literary, and artistic traditions as well as contemporary practices will continue to grow and expand to reach new audiences. To carry out the mission of the armenian museum of america, through diverse educational programs and activities. Cultivate intellectual curiosity about armenian history & culture and engage students in comprehensive learning. Self reflect and evaluate effectiveness of programs and always strive to improve and create the best possible learning experience for armenians and nonarmenians alike.
$925,478 spent$124,259 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $925,478.
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 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $16M (+10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Jason A Sohigan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $47k → $178k.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC’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 MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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 53% · 2018 64% · 2019 92% · 2020 44% · 2021 36% · 2022 79% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
53% of ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k 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 MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC?
- ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,974,736 to it, the largest being JHM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,974,736 in grants to ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC?
- JHM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing