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ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC

EIN 04-2219512 WATERTOWN, MA

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Revenue 2024
$3,620,631
Expenses 2024
$2,718,121

Program services were 89.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q330
Classification
1200
Street
80 BIGELOW AVE SUITE 300

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 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.

  • SUPPORT FOR ARTSAKH: THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES HUMANITARIAN AID TO DISPLACED RESIDENTS OF ARTSAKH.

    Expenses $679,550 · Grants $679,550 · Revenue $73,206

  • CHILDREN OF FALLEN HEROES: THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS CHILDREN WHO LOST PARENTS DUE TO WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER.

    Expenses $448,470 · Grants $448,470 · Revenue $46,045

  • MOTHER AND CHILD: THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE MOTHER AND CHILD BIRTHING CENTER IN THE AKHOURIAN REGION OF ARMENIA, INCLUDING RENOVATIONS AND OPERATIONS.

    Expenses $230,040 · Grants $230,040 · Revenue $28,170

  • THE 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.

    Expenses $1,065,445 · Grants $950,502 · Revenue $73,557

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Arousyak Melkonian

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Taline Daghlian

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Nayiri Balanian

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Annie Kechichian

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Arminee Karabetian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Zharmen Mirzakhanian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Zoya Kocharyan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Lisa Tchalikian Gillibert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Siran Ambarjian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Nora Sevagian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Irma Kassabian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Meghrig Nerkizian

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $56,000
    From this org
    $56,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $3,620,631
    Expenses
    $2,718,121
    Contributions
    $2,557,199
    Grants paid
    $2,308,562
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,836,339
    Expenses
    $2,756,395
    Contributions
    $2,960,977
    Grants paid
    $2,273,510
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,929,182
    Expenses
    $2,490,161
    Contributions
    $3,642,050
    Grants paid
    $1,998,400

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
    $2,175,046
    Expenses
    $2,476,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,926,919
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,683,258
    Expenses
    $3,491,169
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,385,706
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $933,407
    Expenses
    $905,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,700,902
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,362,189
    Expenses
    $1,124,841
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,728,871
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,362,189
    Expenses
    $1,124,841
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,728,871
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,721,831
    Expenses
    $1,381,148
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,440,266
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,609,045
    Expenses
    $1,199,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,923,239
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,125,874
    Expenses
    $883,144
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,713,812
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,113,428
    Expenses
    $1,144,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,605,207
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,209,443
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,553,383

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.