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CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF

CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF (New York) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,399,128 to it, the largest being HACET FOUNDATION INC ($9,435,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$14M
Funders on record
91
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
$16M
61/91 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf does

Mission

COAFs goal is to empower the younger generation of Armenians living in the country's impoverished and neglected rural villages.While COAF's work is all-encompassing, the emphasis is on education. The organizations work combines infrastructure projects schools, medical clinics, health posts, community centers, athletic facilities with world class educational, socioeconomic, health care, and community programs. The objective is to enable young Armenians to define and build their own future with guidance provided by COAF.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Since 2004, the Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) has improved living conditions in Armenias underserved rural areas, including educational and social advancements in 60+ communities across 6 regions, making a lasting impact on the lives of 107,000+ Armenians. Revitalizing Armenia begins with strengthening education and broadening the opportunities of the nations children, ensuring a forward-thinking, globally competitive citizenry. This understanding propelled the creation of the COAF SMART initiative, a comprehensive and replicable educational model. In 2018, COAF inaugurated its flagship SMART Center in the Lori region. An innovative educational facility, the SMART Center offers 2,000+ rural children and youth from 28 communities access to essential educational resources and after-school programs. In 2021, we expanded our focus. Forming unprecedented institutional, private sector, and NGO partnerships, we took significant strides to further our programmatic work throughout Armenia. The opening of our Child and Family Services Center in Hatsik village marked a new era of our approach to rural health. We extended our network of SMART initiatives in the Lori region with new SMART…

    $6,943,577 spentof which $6,652,774 as grants$11,325,684 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,943,577.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 119 ($4.9M) Expenses 84 ($4.0M) Net assets 117 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 140 ($5.7M) Expenses 72 ($3.4M) Net assets 183 ($6.8M)2020 Revenue 181 ($7.4M) Expenses 101 ($4.8M) Net assets 245 ($9.1M)2021 Revenue 249 ($10M) Expenses 112 ($5.4M) Net assets 365 ($14M)2022 Revenue 132 ($5.4M) Expenses 174 ($8.4M) Net assets 269 ($10M)2023 Revenue 351 ($14M) Expenses 154 ($7.4M) Net assets 435 ($16M)2024 Revenue 348 ($14M) Expenses 302 ($15M) Net assets 423 ($16M)
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Revenue (348)Expenses (302)Net assets (423)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 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $16M (+61%).

$3.8M
$4.5M
$6.9M
$9.3M
$14M
$10M
$16M
$16M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 388 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$699k
’17
$883k
’18
$2.3M
’19
$2.6M
’20
$4.8M
’21
−$2.9M
’22
$7.0M
’23
−$217k
’24
5.0
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.

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Listed1414141715151515
Joined·+0+0+4+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·0013000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $308k → $4.4M.

20 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 funders by total. 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

CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF.

34%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 37% · 2019 30% · 2020 43% · 2021 53% · 2022 38% · 2023 27% — 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

44% of CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 20 states in all.

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
MD
DE
NC
TX
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF has grown faster than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve5.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 2%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 19 states

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
MS
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Coaf - Armenia · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF?
CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF (New York) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,399,128 to it, the largest being HACET FOUNDATION INC ($9,435,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF have?
IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $27,399,128 in grants to CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF?
HACET FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 91 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