Minnesota · Nonprofit
NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS
NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,979 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $117k
What New Arab American Theater Works does
Mission
Theater company and artist development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Playwriter development. Assist the development of plays for possible production in 2026. Seven playwriters from the Midwest with ties to Southwest Asia and North Africa were assisted.
$35,000 spent27% of program spendingTraditional drum training programs and performances. Eleven community drum performances were provided.
$40,000 spent31% of program spendingCultural workshops. Seven workshops presented in traditional arts including embroidery and calligraphy.
$35,000 spent27% of program spendingActor training. Ten actors with ties to Southwest Asia, North Africa, or Somalia were trained.
$20,000 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $130,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $59k to $137k (+133%).
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.
86% of NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Layla Asamarai
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $40k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS’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
NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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
93% of NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS 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 NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS: 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 NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS?
- NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,979 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $342,979 in grants to NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW ARAB AMERICAN THEATER WORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), 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