Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION
ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,055 to it, the largest being The Andoni Family Foundation ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $120k
What Arab America Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Arab America Foundation is to promote the arab heritage, educate americans about the arab identity and empower and connect arab americans with diverse organizations across the us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rising leaders: empowering young professionals and leaders national arab american heritage month: during april, the aaf formally recognizes the achievements of arab americans through the celebration of national arab american heritage month. Across the country, cultural institutions, school districts, municpalities, state legislatures, public servants, and non-profit organizations issue proclamations and engage in special events celebrating our communitys rich heritage and numerous contributions to society. Connect arab america - empowering summit: annual gathering of a diverse community of like-minded individuals, visionary community leaders, and influential speakers. The summit covers a range of topics, including entrepreneurship, women empowerment, youth leadership, and commemoration of our rich heritage.
$371,531 spent$310,001 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $371,531.
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.
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 $3k to $126k (+4420%).
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.
100% of ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Issam Andoni
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $18k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION’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
ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION?
- ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,055 to it, the largest being The Andoni Family Foundation ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $67,055 in grants to ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION?
- The Andoni Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARAB AMERICA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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