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Nora Betyousef Froundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$451kArts & Culture$365kEducation$49kReligion$16kInternational$11kAnimals$10kEnvironment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DR EVE GEORGES SADA$40,075
LYRIC OPERA OF ORANGE COUNTY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$480
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $25 → 10%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $600 → 14%ETUTI INSTITUTE: $3k → 15%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $10k → 10%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$770k · 10 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
26

Total granted

$770k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+136%
+41%

Still filing today

20%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UB
    US BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $450k
  • AA
    ASSYRIAN ARTS INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +16% · 68% of their budget
  • CT
    CLASSICAL TAHOE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA
    one grant, 2024 · $47k
  • PN
    Pet Network Humane Society
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • AA
    Assyrian Aid Society of America Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Turkish American Orchestra Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
3
Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
Civil Rights
4
Amin Arasteh Foundation
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5
Ballet Afsaneh Art & Culture Society

Promote the expressive arts of the historic silk road region of Eurasia

Arts & Culture
6
American Institute of Iranian Studies

Promote scholarly research of iran and the persian language primarily by awarding competitive travel grants for research in iran and countries with relevant research resources.

International
7
Assyrian Foundation of America

Help needy assyrians around the world; support assyrian education by granting financial assistance to qualifying assyrian students, and preserve and promote the assyrian language and culture.

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8
The Attiyeh Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
The Khaled Hosseini Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Armenian Film Society

Armenian film society celebrates armenian culture through year-round programming of film screenings, discussions, workshop, and lectures. it shines a spotlight on armenian films and filmmakers, as week as films that deal with armenian…

Arts & Culture
11
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc
Employment
12
Paykanartcar Inc

The paykanartcar is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that unites the talents of contemporary iranian artists with a beloved symbol of national pridethe paykan automobileto advocate for the restoration of human rights and dignity for…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moms Against Poverty; the most unlike its peers is Lyric Opera of Orange County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $450,000 · OtherUS BERKELEY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA: $47,352 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCADR EVE GEORGES SADA: $40,075 · OtherDR EVE GEORGES SADA+27 more: $62,733 · Other+27 moreASSYRIAN ARTS INSTITUTE: $278,256 · PhilanthropyASSYRIAN ARTS INSTITUTE+1 more: $1,610 · PhilanthropyCLASSICAL TAHOE: $12,500 · Human ServicesETUTI INSTITUTE: $2,500 · Human ServicesFARHANG FOUNDATION: $600 · Human Services+1 more: $25 · Human ServicesPet Network Humane Society: $10,000 · AnimalsAssyrian Aid Society of America Inc: $7,800 · InternationalLYRIC OPERA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureASSYRIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN JOS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureNETWORK FOR GOOD: $575 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$600,160Philanthropy$279,866Human Services$15,625Animals$10,000International$7,800Arts & Culture$6,500Public Safety & Disaster$575

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSYRIAN ARTS INSTITUTE: $278,256 over 6y, 68% of budgetCLASSICAL TAHOE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPet Network Humane Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAssyrian Aid Society of America Inc: $7,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetASSYRIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN JOS: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $575 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSYRIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ASSYRIAN ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CLASSICAL TAHOE ↗
  • Who funds Pet Network Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Assyrian Aid Society of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ETUTI INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Sacramento Assyrian Club ↗
  • Who funds ASSYRIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN JOS ↗
  • Who funds FARHANG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds ASSYRIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds MOMS AGAINST POVERTY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nora Betyousef Froundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nora Betyousef Froundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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