Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC
ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,616 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($380,650). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Armenian Relief Society Inc does
Mission
To serve the humanitarian needs of the armenian people and seek to preserve the cultural identity of the armenian nation throughout the world. Moreover, to aid people in need, armenian and non-armenian, due to natural and man-made disasters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support for artsakh: this program provides humanitarian aid to displaced residents of artsakh.
$679,550 spentof which $679,550 as grants$73,206 earned by the program28% of program spendingChildren of fallen heroes: this program supports children who lost parents due to war or natural disaster.
$448,470 spentof which $448,470 as grants$46,045 earned by the program19% of program spendingMother and child: this program provides financial assistance to the mother and child birthing center in the akhourian region of armenia, including renovations and operations.
$230,040 spentof which $230,040 as grants$28,170 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe armenian relief society (ars) sponsors and supports many humanitarian programs worldwide which have educational, cultural, healthcare and health promoting, economic, and disaster relief aid natures. We support orphans through our sponsor a child, and sponsor a student programs. We provide educational incentives through our outstanding student, scholarships, and camp javakhk programs. We fund kindergartens to give a healthy educational start to children. Through our mother and child birthing center, we promote health education during pregnancy.as for the elderly, we fund programs which provide hot meals to the elderly and underprivileged families. We also help wounded soldiers by assisting with their rehabilitation process.finally, we assist families in rural areas by providing them with greenhouses to encourage small businesses and promote the economic growth of the areas so the families can become financially self-sufficient and independent.
$1,065,445 spentof which $950,502 as grants$73,557 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,423,505.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.9M to $8.7M (+25%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Meghrig Nerkizian
Executive director
Board chair
Arousyak Melkonian
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $59k → $280k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Armenian Relief Society of Eastern USA Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY 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 RELIEF SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 RELIEF SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 57% · 2019 66% · 2020 32% · 2021 73% · 2022 77% · 2023 36% — 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
36% of ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
64% of ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $402k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $714k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 RELIEF SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC?
- ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,616 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($380,650). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,116,616 in grants to ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $380,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY 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 28 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