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12 funders with a record of paying for “arab”
Where the money went
Largest: $850,000 to Co-Impact The Partnership for a Breakthrough in Arab Employment LTD (CC) — arab israeli employment and education: unrestricted operating support for fiscal years 2022, 2023, and 2024
Largest: $150,000 to UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR WESTERN ASIA — for support for the arab-eu research network on disability to enhance the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the arab region to participate fully and equally in society and …
Largest: $1.1M to Arab Council for the Social Sciences — for a project on knowledge, publics and crisis in the arab region
Largest: $15,000 to ARAB-JEWISH CENTER FOR EQUALITY EMPOWERMENT AND COOPERATION NEGEV INSTITUTE — to support the aiming high project, a pilot project that seeks to add both arab and haredi women to boards across multiple sectors.
Largest: $48,623 to I'LAM - ARAB CENTER FOR MEDIA FREEDOM DEVELOPMENT — to make hebrew-language covid-19 related news available in arabic and to strengthen communication between palestinian citizens of israel (including journalists) and israeli officia…
Largest: $195,500 to The Arab Center for Alternative Planning — support planning capacity of arab municipalities
Largest: $40,000 to New Israel Fund — to support the integration of arab-israeli teachers in jewish schools, to support arab-israeli children with disabilities, to support the ideal of a shared society in israel betwee…
Arab Community Center for Economic and SDearborn, MICharity · may take applications
21 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2023Largest: $614,252 to CENTER FOR ARAB AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY — donor direct fund distribution
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $51.0M · through 2023Largest: $326,000 to Arab American Family Services — zakat contribution, general operations., in support of general operations to provide services in housing stability and increase access to healthcare to arab americans and other imm…
Largest: $30,000 to THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ARAB — the implementation of tech programs in local arab councils program
Largest: $176,500 to ARAB RESOURCE COLLECTIVE — to support the arab network for early childhood development's strategic development and growth; and provide emergency funding to arc to support young children and their families af…
Largest: $60,000 to SAHABA INITIATIVE INC — improving the health and safety of muslim and arab community: to provide mutual aid and support in san bernardino to improve health and safety against anti-arab hate and islamophob…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →

