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AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE

AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,621 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($584,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$550k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$558k
15/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%
01What it does

What Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture does

Mission

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture offers artistic and educational programming that enriches understanding and celebrates diversity, while supporting the pursuit and affirmation of Arab American cultural identity and playing a constructive civic role within broader American Society.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Artistic presentations: presentations of renowned arab literary, visual, and performing artists to students, educators, and the general public.

    $399,244 spent
    75% of program spending
  2. Arab cultural arts/arts instruction: offering in and after school arts classes in a variety of artistic media for students to explore their lives and heritage, and development of accompanying curriculum material for educators. This program includes music instruction, after school programs, and interactive online programs.

    $111,378 spent
    21% of program spending
  3. Al-bustan camp: an arabic language and cultural day camp for children and teenagers, held for three weeks every july since 2002, with an integrated language, arts, and nature study curriculum organized around arab cultural and historical themes.

    $19,135 spent
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $529,757.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($675k) Expenses 100 ($500k) Net assets 100 ($530k)2021 Revenue 120 ($807k) Expenses 97 ($483k) Net assets 161 ($854k)2022 Revenue 121 ($817k) Expenses 133 ($663k) Net assets 171 ($905k)2023 Revenue 75 ($507k) Expenses 127 ($635k) Net assets 147 ($776k)2024 Revenue 81 ($550k) Expenses 154 ($768k) Net assets 105 ($558k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (81)Expenses (154)Net assets (105)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $530k to $854k (+61%).

$530k
$854k
$951k
$796k
$850k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 2% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$175k
’20
$324k
’21
$153k
’22
−$128k
’23
−$218k
’24
4.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20202021202220232024
Listed1011131213
Joined·+6+2+3+3
No longer listed·5042
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $216k → $479k.

5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE.

20%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 51% · 2019 40% · 2020 45% · 2021 36% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

70% of AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
CT
CA
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $517k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−40% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 20%Fundraising 4%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE?
AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,621 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($584,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,921,621 in grants to AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE?
THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $584,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing