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ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC

ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,400 to it, the largest being The Levant Foundation ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$112k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$191k
Net assets
$0
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Arab American Arts Institute Inc does

Mission

To foster, study and research Middle Eastern music, dance and performances by encouraging the performance and arranging literary, music and dance programs for the advancement of the culture and the arts.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.

Program

Educational exposure to other cultures and traditions.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($260k) Expenses 100 ($121k) Net assets 100 ($272k)2018 Revenue 50 ($129k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 43 ($112k) Expenses 95 ($116k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182019
Revenue (43)Expenses (95)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $272k to $0 (−100%).

$272k
$0
$0
201720182019
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.

2017
2018
2019
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$138k
’17
$7k
’18
−$4k
’19
25
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.

201720182019
Listed444
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $175k → $6k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC’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 AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

35% 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 AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC.

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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 AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC: 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 AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC?
ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,400 to it, the largest being The Levant Foundation ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $191,400 in grants to ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC?
The Levant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 3 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