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ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA

ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,150 to it, the largest being ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC ($3,724,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$2.3M
7/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Armenian National Committee of America does

Mission

To foster greater civic awareness among Americans of Armenian heritage and the broader pro-Armenian community throughout the United States and to encourage civic participation in the democratic process.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. ANCA Capital Gateway Program- The ANCA Capital Gateway Program provides qualified university graduates an opportunity to explore various internships in Washington DC. This program leverages ANCA's long standing relationships in the nation's capital and its experience in the public policy community to help candidates secure an internship or employment that fits their interests and needs. The program also offers short-term housing to certain qualified applicants.

    $281,163 spent
    30% of program spending
  2. ANCA Community Outreach Program - The ANCA Community Outreach Program promotes greater civic awareness and engagement by Americans of Armenian heritage and the broader pro-Armenian community throughout the United States by providing news and analysis on a broad range of issues, including the Armenian Genocide, U.S.-Armenia bilateral relations and Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) security and freedom. The program helps the ANCA maintain an active, updated website and social media profile; empowers activists to meet their civic responsibilities within the U.S. public policy arena; informs and educates the U.S. foreign policy community and other stakeholders about issues of Concern to Americans of Armenian heritage and promotes Armenian American culture and heritage.

    $340,551 spent
    36% of program spending
  3. ANCA Advocacy Program - The ANCA Advocacy Program works with the U.S. Administration, Congressional, state and local officials to advance a broad range of policy priorities of concern to Americans of Armenian heritage and America's broader pro-Armenian community, including: U.S.-Armenia bilateral relations; Artsakh's (Nagorno Karabakh) security and freedom; and, U.S. reaffirmation and support for a just resolution of the Armenian Genocide. Toward this end, the ANCA provides information, research and recommendations - in the form of testimony, position papers, facts sheets, and other formats - in support of its policy priorities. The ANCA endorses candidates, scores legislators, organizes voter registration drives, and distributes candidate questionnaires, Congressional report cards and election guides.

    $286,814 spent
    31% of program spending
  4. ANCA Leo Sarkisian Summer Internship - The ANCA Leo Sarkisian Summer internship program is a 6-week training program for college students that teaches community activism, media and PR, grassroots outreach, and general professional skills. Students are also assigned research projects and participate in a series of lectures about Armenian history, advocacy and the political process.

    $26,341 spent
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $934,869.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($823k) Net assets 100 ($719k)2021 Revenue 94 ($1.1M) Expenses 103 ($851k) Net assets 139 ($997k)2022 Revenue 84 ($1.0M) Expenses 114 ($936k) Net assets 149 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 105 ($1.3M) Expenses 125 ($1.0M) Net assets 180 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 103 ($1.2M) Expenses 137 ($1.1M) Net assets 195 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 193 ($2.3M) Expenses 171 ($1.4M) Net assets 319 ($2.3M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (193)Expenses (171)Net assets (319)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.3M (+62%).

$817k
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$2.3M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$373k
’20
$278k
’21
$72k
’22
$226k
’23
$106k
’24
$903k
’25
1.7
months of
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

Aram Hamparian

Executive Director

Board chair

George Aghjayan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed666666
Joined·+2+1+0+1+1
No longer listed·21011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $339k → $613k.

From the IRS filings of ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA’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 NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA.

89%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 82% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 89% — 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

33% of ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

89% of ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 23%Fundraising 10%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA?
ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,150 to it, the largest being ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC ($3,724,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,177,150 in grants to ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA?
ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,724,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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