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CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC

EIN 11-3579187 NEW YORK, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2024
$14,287,520
Expenses 2024
$14,504,288

Program services were 95.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q30
Classification
1000
Street
149 5TH AVE RM 500

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

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.

  • 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 Village infrastructure, designed to spur social and economic progress in 27 rural communities. During our "Home Is Calling" virtual gala, we garnered record-setting support to build SMART Centers across Armenia, starting with the Armavir Smart Center, with construction beginning in 2022. COAF supporters reached out from across the globe to offer their talents and resources to the rural Armenian community, ensuring continued advancement for Armenia's children during even these difficult times. As we look ahead, our commitment to Armenia remains steadfast and strengthened by that of our community.

    Expenses $13,912,284 · Grants $13,408,975 · Revenue $14,057,054

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.

  • Garo H Armen PhD

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dr Alice Saraydarian

    SECRETARY/TREAS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • John Saraydarian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jacqueline Vartanian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Natasha Avanessians

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Khalil Barrage

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregory Ekizian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Debbie Ohanian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Pendergast

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shake Nahapetian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vahe Nahapetian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vahe Dombalagian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hasmik Dombalagian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter Balankian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Diron Jebejian

    AUD. CHAIR/PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,287,520
    Expenses
    $14,504,288
    Contributions
    $14,057,054
    Grants paid
    $13,404,975
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,397,861
    Expenses
    $7,379,463
    Contributions
    $14,430,612
    Grants paid
    $6,652,774
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,432,074
    Expenses
    $8,356,264
    Contributions
    $5,431,490
    Grants paid
    $5,258,981

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
    $10,208,755
    Expenses
    $5,392,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,884,655
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,433,572
    Expenses
    $4,830,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,333,007
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,743,952
    Expenses
    $3,436,653
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,867,856
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,899,318
    Expenses
    $4,016,401
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,478,409
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,103,140
    Expenses
    $4,802,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,824,245
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,424,658
    Expenses
    $4,590,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,500,516
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,543,732
    Expenses
    $2,545,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,505,545
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,684,470
    Expenses
    $2,170,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,740,887
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,336,107
    Expenses
    $1,303,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,046,885
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,771,604
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,106,083

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • COAF - ARMENIA

    RURAL DEVELOPMENT · AM

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.