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The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$544k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$988kArts & Culture$839kCivil Rights$343kHuman Services$277kEducation$204kPhilanthropy$125kSocial Science$18kCommunity Improvement$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$28,170
Median grant
6
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $25k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10k → 21%GLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
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 12% of The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Violet Jabara Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$840k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
42

Total granted

$1.5M
$792k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+15%

Still filing today

58%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman 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

  • NE
    NEAR EAST FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $364k · revenue +37%
  • TA
    THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +268%
  • AJ
    A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • AI
    ARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · 76% of their budget
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +58%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII)
    one grant, 2024 · $67k · revenue +10%
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
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
2
Open Transformation Lab Inc

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.

Science & Tech
3
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Philanthropy
4
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Middle East Policy Council

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…

International
7
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

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'…

International
9
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
10
The American Center of Research Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

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,…

International
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Middle East Institute; 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.
05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 72 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEAR EAST FOUNDATION: $364,099 · InternationalNEAR EAST FOUNDATIONMYRIAD USA INC: $100,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $100,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACETHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII): $66,769 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH …INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INC: $50,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSI…STREET CHILD US: $28,170 · International+7 more: $89,650 · International+7 moreWASHINGTON ST HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $129,000 · OtherWASHINGTON ST HISTORICAL S…Individual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKHAYRALLAH CENTER: $50,000 · OtherKHAYRALLAH CENTERUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA…KHAYRALLAH CENTER AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherKHAYRALLAH CENTER AT NORTH…Individual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherAIRWARS: $32,500 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY - MOISE A KHAYRALLAH CENTER: $27,100 · OtherMUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES: $75,000 · OtherMUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VA…+18 more: $151,156 · Other+18 moreARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureARAB IMAGE FOUND…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUS…ARTEEAST INC: $71,500 · Arts & CultureARTEEAST INCWASHINGTON STREET HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $37,500 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON STREE…NOOR THEATRE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNOOR THEATRE INCMUSEUM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE PA…STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $42,518 · Arts & Culture+7 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $181,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FO…Pasadena Community Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPasadena Communi…KARAM FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyKARAM FOUNDATIONDOC SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ARAB-A…Refugee Artisan Initative: $12,000 · Community ImprovementThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $36,000 · EducationNew York University: $25,000 · EducationLeonard Education Organization: $10,000 · EducationManhattan University: $9,949 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $65,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human Services
International$798,688Other$674,756Arts & Culture$416,518Philanthropy$416,000Community Improvement$262,000Education$185,949Human Services$91,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEAR EAST FOUNDATION: $364,099 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $250,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $181,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES: $75,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetARTEEAST INC: $71,500 over 3y, 22% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII): $66,769 over 1y, 16% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON STREET HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $37,500 over 3y, 96% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOOR THEATRE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDT INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNew York University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDOC SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUMPTY DUMPTY INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESPAC FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetRefugee Artisan Initative: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUPRISING THEATER: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYGROUNDS FOR PALESTINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaravan to Class: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan University: $9,949 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLINK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIDOUN PROJECTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEIGHBOR2NEIGHBOR IN GREENWICH VILLAGE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnicorn Riot: $518 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.

The Ford FoundationArab Community Center…Rockefeller Brothers …ImpactassetsincOpen Society InstituteCultures of Resistanc…Threshold FoundationFoundation to Promote…The Rockefeller Found…The New York Communit…Greater Washington Co…Amalgamated Charitabl…
The Ford FoundationNY23.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 72 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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