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Nour Foundation

The NOUR FOUNDATION explores meaning and commonality in human experience through a multidisciplinary and intergrative approach that blends the sciences and the humanities in order to promote a greater spirit of mutual understanding, tolerance, and unity.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$265kHuman Services$190kInternational$145kCivil Rights$90kCrime & Legal$15kScience & Tech$3kEmployment$3kEducation$500
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$45,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$20,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF$20,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $25k → 17%HAGAR USA INC: $25k → 10%WORLWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $20k → 17%HAGAR USA INC: $20k → 10%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $20k → 17%HAGAR USA INC: $20k → 10%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $20k → 17%HAGAR USA INC: $15k → 10%UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15k → 17%HAGAR USA INC: $10k → 10%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $15k → 17%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $15k → 17%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $15k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $40k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 17%ENCLYCLOPEDIA IRANICA: $3k → 17%ENCYCLOPAEDIA IRANICA FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $45k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 17%HER JUSTICE: $15k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $250 → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 17%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$680k · 6 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$680k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+48%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalEmploymentCivil RightsOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +58%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +76%
  • HU
    HAGAR USA INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HJ
    HER JUSTICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +48%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORKgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +79%
  • WO
    WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +37%
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.

1
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
4
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Hias Inc

Hias is the international jewish nonprofit that stands for a world in which forcibly displaced people find welcome, safety, and opportunity.(continued on schedule o)there have never been more people seeking safety and so few places willing…

International
7
Asian University for Women (Auw) Support Foundation

Asian university for women (auw) seeks to offer high quality education to young women of extraordinary talents drawn from diverse national, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds. see schedule o for continuation.it is open to…

Education
8
International Rescue Committee Inc

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

International
9
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
10
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
11
Arrow

To make grants to charitable organizations and programs that support the achievement of sexual and reproductive health (srh) of the poor & underprivileged women and others in the asia-pacific and elsewhere.

International
12
New York Immigration Coalition Inc

To unite immigrants, members and allies so all new yorkers can thrive.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc; the most unlike its peers is Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $265,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $150,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · OtherNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN …CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $15,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY S…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $145,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR …HAGAR USA INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsHAGAR USA INCHER JUSTICE INC: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationENCYCLOPAEDIA IRANICA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$265,000Other$190,000International$145,000Civil Rights$90,000Education$15,750Employment$5,000

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $265,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAGAR USA INC: $90,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCYCLOPAEDIA IRANICA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Nour Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nour Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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