New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (New York) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,292,989 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($65,681,307). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $710M
- Funders on record
- 106
- Grants received
- $122M
- Net assets
- $1.3B
What American University of Beirut does
Mission
To provide excellence in education, to participate in the advancement of knowledge through research, and to serve the people of the middle east and beyond. Chartered in new york state in 1863, the university bases its educational philosophy, standards, and practices on the american liberal arts model of higher education. The university believes deeply in and encourages freedom of thought and expression and seeks to foster tolerance and respect for diversity and dialogue. Graduates will be individuals committed to creative and critical thinking, life long learning, personal integrity, civic responsibility, and leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The university operates six faculties in beirut, lebanon, serving 9,138 students. The university also provides faculty and support through its extension and research programs.
$299,433,808 spentof which $85,321,751 as grants$238,940,044 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe university operates a 392 bed teaching hospital, clinics, and other out-patient facilities and research laboratories.
$280,576,438 spent$251,985,962 earned by the program48% of program spendingThe university provides supplemental programs of housing for students, faculty and staff including food services, parking and a farm in support of its activities.
$5,241,526 spent$11,921,349 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $585,251,772.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.9B to $1.7B (−13%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $17M.
22 of 106 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 funders by total. 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
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 62% · 2019 60% · 2020 40% · 2021 56% · 2022 53% · 2023 74% — 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
44% of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $203.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$130.5M
- Department of State$64.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.3M
- Department of the Interior$1.8M
- Department of Defense$575k
- National Science Foundation$130k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Jump Start LLC · disregarded
- Start Up LLC · disregarded
- New Ideas LLC · disregarded
- Aub Limited · disregarded
- Libancert Sarl · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT?
- AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (New York) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,292,989 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($65,681,307). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $122,292,989 in grants to AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT?
- MASTERCARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,681,307 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 106 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing