OxYGen Foundation

What OxYGen Foundation does

OxYGen Foundation is an Armenian advocacy and development foundation headquartered in Yerevan, Armenia, operating across five strategic directions: Economic Justice, Gender Equality, Accountable Governance, Youth Empowerment, and Resilience Building. Founded in 2005, the organization implements programs targeting women and girls facing poverty and discrimination, ethnic minorities including the Yezidi community, youth, civil society organizations, and forcibly displaced persons — most notably the approximately 100,000 people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, of whom 52% are women. Active programs include gender-responsive budgeting initiatives (Budget4Change), the KATARINE Candidate Academy 2025 for women's political participation ahead of Armenia's 2026 elections, the Strength in Action 3.0 program supporting the Women, Peace and Security National Action Plan 2025-2027, and humanitarian assistance including women-and-girls safe spaces.

The foundation is wholly funded by grants from international institutional donors, including the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the European Union, USAID, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (UK FCDO), the Austrian Development Agency, UNFPA, UNDP, Oxfam, and others. Programs are delivered through coalitions and partnerships with government bodies, the Interministerial Commission on Women, Peace and Security, Local Self-Governments, the Women Peacemakers Network, and a roster of international implementing partners such as NDI, IWPR, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee. The foundation has no commercial product offering, no proprietary technology platform, and no AI/ML capabilities; its "product" is the advocacy, capacity-building, and humanitarian programming itself. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and operations are managed by a small team of 11-50 employees led by founder and Executive Director Margarita Hakobyan.

Name

OxYGen Foundation

Legal name

OxYGen Foundation

Website

https://oxygen.org.am

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OxYGen Foundation is an Armenian advocacy and development nonprofit, founded in 2005, that delivers grant-funded programs in gender equality, economic justice, accountable governance, youth empowerment, and resilience building for women, youth, ethnic minorities, and forcibly displaced persons in Armenia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Society and Gender Equality Advocacy

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAKAH

International Grantmaking & Development Foundations

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Philanthropy, Foundations & Grantmaking

SECONDARYBPAGAAAH

Refugee, IDP & Migration Humanitarian Assistance

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Humanitarian Aid & Disaster Relief

SECONDARYBPAGABAH

Refugee, Migration & Displacement Support

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/International Development & Poverty Alleviation

Keywords

• Gender equality advocacy
• Women empowerment programs
• Civil society development
• Humanitarian assistance services
• Gender-responsive budgeting

Headquarters

HQ city

Yerevan

HQ country

Armenia

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Grant funding from international donors: The foundation is funded through grants and programs from international development organizations, governments, and UN agencies. Major donors include Swedish government, EU, USAID, UK FCDO, Austrian Development Agency, UNFPA, Oxfam, and others.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

OxYGen Foundation implements donor-funded advocacy and development programs across five strategic directions: Economic Justice, Gender Equality, Accountable Governance, Youth Empowerment, and Resilience Building. Its portfolio combines policy advocacy (e.g., gender-responsive budgeting with the Armenian government), women's political participation training (KATARINE Candidate Academy), demographic resilience programming, women-and-girls safe-space creation, and humanitarian assistance to forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Product overview

OxYGen Foundation is a rights-based foundation implementing social programs across five strategic pillars: Economic Justice, Gender Equality, Accountable Governance, Youth Empowerment, and Resilience Building. The foundation operates programs that function as its core offerings, including gender-responsive budgeting initiatives, women's political participation campaigns, peace and security programs, and humanitarian assistance. These programs are interconnected interventions working toward the foundation's vision of an Armenia free from poverty and suffering where women and men can exercise their rights and participate in decision-making processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Budget4Change: Promoting Gender Equality and Inclusion

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• UNFPA ArmeniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUN Population Fund - major implementing partner for humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and gender equality programs
• UNDP ArmeniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUN Development Programme - partnerships on governance and democratic participation programs
• OxfamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on economic justice and agricultural value chain programs
• National Democratic Institute (NDI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing KATARINE Candidate Academy for women's political participation
• Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on women, peace and security agenda implementation
• Save the ChildrenminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChild welfare and protection programming partnerships
• Solidarity CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLabor rights programming partnership
• International Rescue Committee (IRC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHumanitarian response partnerships
• WomenNetcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWomen's rights network partnership on labor rights and empowerment
• UNFPAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for Demographic Resilience project on women and data-driven policies

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• International Alert: Peacebuilding organization working on Women, Peace and Security agenda globally; directly comparable to OxYGen's Strength in Action WPS programming in Armenia.
• Norwegian Refugee Council: Humanitarian organization with displacement response programs in the Caucasus; comparable to OxYGen's humanitarian assistance and safe spaces programming for Nagorno-Karabakh displaced populations.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC): Listed partner of OxYGen on humanitarian response; IRC operates women's protection and empowerment programs globally with similar services (safe spaces, GBV response, economic support) for displaced women.
• Kvinna till Kvinna: Swedish foundation (also a Sida partner) funding women's rights organizations in conflict-affected countries including the South Caucasus; directly comparable funder-partner model and geographic focus on Armenia's WPS agenda.
• Women for Women International: Global nonprofit specializing in women's economic empowerment and social integration in conflict-affected countries; comparable program model targeting displaced and economically marginalized women.
• Oxfam in Armenia: OxYGen's listed partner on economic justice and agricultural value chain programs; Oxfam runs gender and economic justice programming in Armenia with overlapping beneficiary populations.
• UN Women Armenia: UN entity coordinating gender equality programming in the region; OxYGen is an implementing partner and operates in adjacent programmatic areas (women's political participation, GBV, economic empowerment).
• UNFPA Armenia: Core UN implementing partner of OxYGen on Demographic Resilience and humanitarian programs; both work on women's empowerment, demographic policy, and gender-responsive programming in Armenia.
• National Democratic Institute (NDI) Armenia: OxYGen's explicit co-implementation partner on the KATARINE Candidate Academy for women's political participation; both work on democratic participation and women's political empowerment in Armenia.

Broad incumbents

• CARE International in the Caucasus: Large international humanitarian and development organization with programs in the South Caucasus covering gender, economic empowerment, and humanitarian response — overlapping mission but at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/oxygenarm
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@OxygenFoundation
• Facebookfacebook.com/FoundationOxYGen
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/oxygen-foundation
• Instagraminstagram.com/oxygen_foundation

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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