Maine · Private foundation
The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $544k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 89%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,170
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $229k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 89% of the organizations The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $277k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $273k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $302k | 89% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $329k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $206k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $233k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $204k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $246k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $277k | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Near East Foundation | $364,099 | 5 | 1% |
| The Arab-American Family Support Center Inc | $250,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Arab Image Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 76% |
| A Jewish Voice for Peace | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Karam Foundation | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Muslims for Progressive Values | $75,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Arteeast Inc | $71,500 | 3 | 22% |
| The American Academic Research Inst in Iraq (D/B/A Tarii) | $66,769 | 1 | 16% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($560k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Arab Community Center for Economic and S · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Open Society Institute · Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation · Threshold Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Rockefeller Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust with peer funders
About The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust
- How much does The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust give?
- The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $544,170 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (35%), Arts & Culture (29%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Near East Foundation ($364k), The Arab-American Family Support Center Inc ($250k), Arab Image Foundation Inc ($100k).
- Does The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Arab Community Center for Economic and S, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc.
- Where is The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust based?
- The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust is based in ME.
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