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ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243 to it, the largest being THE CORTOPASSI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$310k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$2.7M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Assyrian Foundation of America does

Mission

Help needy assyrians around the world; support assyrian education by granting financial assistance to qualifying assyrian students, and preserve and promote the assyrian language and culture.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Granting financial assistance to qualifying non profits

    $49,150 spent
    32% of program spending

  2. Publishing and distribution of a cultural and educational publication named nineveh, published and distributed semi-annually.

    $43,463 spent
    28% of program spending

  3. Cultural and academic assistance

    $33,735 spent
    22% of program spending

  4. Provide financial aid to needy assyrians, assyrian schools and charitable assyrian organizations.

    $28,700 spent
    19% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,048.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($222k) Expenses 100 ($118k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 133 ($295k) Expenses 133 ($158k) Net assets 108 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 137 ($304k) Expenses 165 ($195k) Net assets 113 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 120 ($267k) Expenses 114 ($135k) Net assets 120 ($2.2M)2021 Revenue 134 ($297k) Expenses 115 ($136k) Net assets 129 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 117 ($259k) Expenses 143 ($169k) Net assets 134 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 134 ($297k) Expenses 153 ($181k) Net assets 144 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 62 ($139k) Expenses 160 ($189k) Net assets 143 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 140 ($310k) Expenses 174 ($206k) Net assets 149 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (174)Net assets (149)

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 $2.5M to $2.7M (+8%).

$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$2.7M
$2.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$104k
’17
$137k
’18
$109k
’19
$132k
’20
$161k
’21
$90k
’22
$116k
’23
−$51k
’24
$105k
’25
82
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.

Board chair

Robert Karoukain

Welfare chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed9109997677
Joined·+2+2+4+0+2+0+2+0
No longer listed·13404110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $146.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION 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

ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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

80%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 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

100% of ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

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

Assyrian American Association of Southern California79%Assyrian American Association of San Jos76%Assyrians for Education75%Restore Nineveh Now Foundation74%Aua Americas Chapter Inc73%Armenian Educational Foundation73%Kessab Educational Assn of Los Angeles73%Kimia Foundation72%

Nationally

Assyrian American Association of Southern California79%Assyrian American Association of San Jos76%Assyrian American National Federation Inc76%Assyrians for Education75%American Federation of Ramallah Education Charitable Fund75%Restore Nineveh Now Foundation74%Armenian Cultural Association of America Inc74%Aua Americas Chapter Inc73%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 10%Fundraising 15%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA?
ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243 to it, the largest being THE CORTOPASSI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,243 in grants to ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA?
THE CORTOPASSI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSYRIAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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