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AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 36-4808338 CAMBRIDGE, MA

Revenue 2024
$15,329,973
Expenses 2024
$4,811,476

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
2000
Street
55 CAMBRIDGE PKWY STE 800E

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To support people and promote global projects tackling the needs of the most helpless and destitute Aurora is rooted in the events of the Armenian Genocide one hundred years ago and the enhancement of its position in the world's memory. We will uncover and tell stories of survival and humanity that transpired during the Genocide. In addition, the goal of the Organization is to generate global and local conversations about gratitude; about survivors and saviors from any time and from any place around the world; and about "on the ground" humanitarian projects that make a lasting difference.

  • The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative is a foundation that seeks to address on-the-ground humanitarian challenges around the world with the focus on helping the most destitute. Its mission is rooted in the Armenian history as the Initiative was founded on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, and strives to transform this experience into a global movement. See Schedule F for more details.

    Expenses $4,204,136 · Grants $2,503,800

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Arman Jilavyan

    CEO (THRU 09/24)/VICE CHAIR (AS OF 09/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Noubar Afeyan

    Board Chair/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALICE GREENWALD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNA AFEYAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Barsamian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC ESRAILAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA KLINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lord Ara Darzi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAFFI GREGORIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Armine Afeyan

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (AS OF 09/24)

    Total calculated
    $180,000
    From this org
    $180,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $180,000

  • LARRY CHRISTOFORI

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (AS OF 04/24)

    Total calculated
    $114,423
    From this org
    $114,423
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Peter J Hall CPA

    Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer (THRU 04/24)

    Total calculated
    $11,538
    From this org
    $11,538
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SALLIE LYNCH

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $180,000
    From this org
    $180,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $180,000

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $15,329,973
    Expenses
    $4,811,476
    Contributions
    $15,329,973
    Grants paid
    $2,503,800
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,095,370
    Expenses
    $1,908,981
    Contributions
    $4,095,370
    Grants paid
    $1,052,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,095,370
    Expenses
    $1,908,981
    Contributions
    $4,095,370
    Grants paid
    $1,052,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,081,950
    Expenses
    $3,722,919
    Contributions
    $6,081,950
    Grants paid
    $3,210,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,764,400
    Expenses
    $2,550,742
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,150,777

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,088,947
    Expenses
    $3,261,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,009,308

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,301,256
    Expenses
    $1,407,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $294,695

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,068,631
    Expenses
    $1,121,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $389,030

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,072,025
    Expenses
    $1,222,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $394,215

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,319,280
    Expenses
    $1,351,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $432,064

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,314,915
    Expenses
    $1,328,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $358,377

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,390,000
    Expenses
    $2,751,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $412,646

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,423,995
    Expenses
    $2,735,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $445,396

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,098,100
    Expenses
    $426,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,038,152

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.