Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,275,373 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($1,952,822). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $735k
What Arab American Institute Foundation does
Mission
The Arab American Institute Foundations goal is the encourage, recognize, and celebrate arab american participation in american civic life, and the cultivate and mobilize a strong, educated, empowered arab american community that can play a meaningful role in the united states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Leadership. The foundation supports programs that promote civic leadership
$1,027,194 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,027,194.
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 2018 to 2019, from $74k to $457k (+516%).
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 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 16% · 2020 12% · 2021 20% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
George Salem
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $112k → $458k.
10 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 INSTITUTE 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 AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 INSTITUTE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 74% · 2019 91% · 2020 49% · 2021 45% · 2022 56% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
59% of ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION?
- ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,275,373 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($1,952,822). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,275,373 in grants to ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,952,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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