Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,267,323 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($1,952,822). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Women Donors Networkshared funders
- Arab Community Center for Economic and Sportfolio match
- The Levant Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
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) — 60% 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
60% 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Networkshared fundersCA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Arab Community Center for Economic and Sportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Levant Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samir and Grace Tuma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kanaan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barzinji Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zakat Foundation of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Muslim Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abdul Satar & Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Rockefeller Family Fund Incshared fundersNY · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 97 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 $4,267,323 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($1,952,822). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% 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 $4,267,323 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.
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 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing