· Private foundation
The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WASHINGTON ST HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $100,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $100,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $36,000 |
| STREET CHILD US | $28,170 |
| MUSLIMS FOR PROGESSIVE VALUES | $25,000 |
| ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ACOR | $10,000 |
| INTERLINK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NY DEPT OF FINANCE | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NENEAR EAST FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2023 · $364k · revenue +37%
- TATHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +268%
- AJA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE4× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- AIARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · 76% of their budget
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +58%
- TATHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII)one grant, 2024 · $67k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The missions is to provide information and resources to counter disinformation, propaganda, and offer a window to trusted content about the events that are going on in the Middle East.
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The middle east policy council is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan eductional organization. founded in 1981, the mission of the council is to foster public discussion of the political, economic, cultural and security issues that…
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
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,…
The American Center of Research (ACOR) is a non-profit academic, education, and scientific institution, which advances understanding of Jordan and the interconnected region, past and present. We promote and support research across a broad…
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) that works to center advocates and experts from and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the policy discourse to foster transparent,…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Middle East Institute and the most unlike its peers is Uprising Theater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEAR EAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES ↗
- Who funds ARTEEAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII) ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STREET HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds STREET CHILD US ↗
- Who funds DT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds NOOR THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DOC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMPTY DUMPTY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds WESPAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.