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Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation at a glance

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Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2023
23
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

75% of Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Arab Community Center For Economic And S, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $44k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
5
’18
9
’19
4
’20
4
’21
7
’22
16
’23
11
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$64kArts & Culture$35kHealth$27kReligion$26kInternational$10kEducation$6kHuman Services$1kCivil Rights$200Other$0
02FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k22 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$558k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARAB AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER$12,750
ST GEORGE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH$9,500
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$4,000
ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING ART IN THE ARAB SOCIETY$2,000
ARAB AMERICAN FOUNDATION$2,000
NATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA$1,500
NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HOUSTON CHAPTER$1,500
THE ORDER OF STIGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH$1,500
CRUSADER FUND$1,000
HISD FOUNDATION$1,000
THE ROBBINS FOUNDATION$1,000
ST JOHN XXIII COLLEGE PREPARATORY$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
FRIENDS OF EQYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH CANCER$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $325 → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $250 → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $250 → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $125 → 21%CENTER FOR ARAB AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY: $50k → 21%THE FUTURE BEYOND CHARITY: $150 → 16%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

MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 35% of Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Samir and Grace Tuma Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97k · 20 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$97k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+50%

Still filing today

60%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
InternationalHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AA
    ARAB AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +44%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +120%
  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • AE
    ARAB-AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -99%
  • N
    NAAWA
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • HC
    HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Philanthropy
2
Physicians for Palestine
Health
3
American-Arab Media Foundation Inc
—
4
S Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace
International
5
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
—
6
Mesoamerican Research Foundation
Social Science
7
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
8
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
9
Arab American Medical Association

Medical erducation

Health
10
Amin Arasteh Foundation
—
11
Society for Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Institute of Eastern Mediterranean Studies Corp
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arab Community Center for Economic and S; the most unlike its peers is The Robbins Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 45 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $50,950 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMI…+2 more: $1,350 · Human ServicesST GEORGE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherST GEORGE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN C…THE ORDER OF STIGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: $4,000 · OtherTHE ORDER OF STIGNATIUS OF ANT…ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING ART IN THE ARAB SOCIETY: $4,000 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING ART …CRUSADER FUND: $3,000 · OtherCRUSADER FUNDNAAWA: $3,000 · OtherNAAWANATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA: $2,000 · OtherST JOHN XXIII INC: $2,000 · OtherJOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1,650 · Other+16 more: $8,025 · Other+16 moreARAB AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,785 · Arts & CultureARAB AMERICAN CULT…ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureARAB AMERICA FOUND…Palestinian American Cultural Center: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePalestinian Americ…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $10,000 · HealthVanderbilt U…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthTHE METHODIS…NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · HealthNATIONAL ARA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $4,300 · InternationalFRIENDS OF EGYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $3,460 · InternationalHEALTH OUTREACH TO THE MIDDLE EAST FOR CHRIST: $3,000 · InternationalTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE: $1,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING: $700 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $500 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalARAB-AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROBBINS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBaylor College of Medicine: $2,600 · EducationTHE MEIRA&SHAUL GMASSRY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Human Services$52,300Other$47,675Arts & Culture$28,285Health$18,500International$13,160Philanthropy$11,000Education$3,600

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 budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $50,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARAB AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,785 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARAB-AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF EGYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $3,460 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTH OUTREACH TO THE MIDDLE EAST FOR CHRIST: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPalestinian American Cultural Center: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBBINS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEIRA&SHAUL GMASSRY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESPAC FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUTURE BEYOND CHARITY INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarris County Medical Society: $100 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Samir and Grace Tuma Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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