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Ahmar Family Foundation at a glance

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Ahmar Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$223kHealth$148kArts & Culture$112kCommunity Improvement$100kEducation$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$27,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$75,000
Lebanese American Foundation Inc$69,630
American Task Force on Lebanon ATFL$27,500
PAX FOUNDATION$25,000
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundat$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Chapman University: $5k → 11%Los Angeles Fire Department Foundat: $5k → 14%Ellis Island Honor Society: $16k → 6%Armenian General Benevolent Union: $2k → 17%Ren Moawad Foundation RMF: $50k → 14%Pele F C Alumni Corporation: $3k → 9%Chapman University: $2k → 11%Los Angeles Fire Dept Foundation: $1k → 14%American University Of Beirut: $5k → 17%Rene Moawad Foundation: $10k → 14%Pele F C Alumni Corporation: $3k → 9%Children's Burn Foundation: $4k → 14%LAU Health Foundation: $4k → 17%American Task Force of Lebanon: $50k → 14%PAX FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%American University of Beirut: $500 → 17%American Task Force on Lebanon ATFL: $42k → 14%Lebanese American Foundation: $10k → 14%American Task Force of Lebanon: $42k → 14%City of Hope: $2k → 14%American Task Force on Lebanon ATFL: $28k → 14%Lebanese American Foundation Inc: $70k → 14%Lebanese American Foundation Inc: $15k → 14%Loyola Marymount Univ: $2k → 14%Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: $75k → 14%Lebanese Ladies Cultural Society: $1k → 14%Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: $39k → 14%Lebanese Ladies Cultural Society: $1k → 14%Los Angeles Cedars Foundation: $50k → 14%Los Angeles Cedars Foundation: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Ahmar Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ahmar Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$555k · 10 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$555k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’24’25
EducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AT
    AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $161k · revenue +80%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $114k · revenue +26%
  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES CEDARS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +204% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • EI
    ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +38%
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +305%
  • LH
    LAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -92%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
The American University in Cairo

The university is a premier english- language institution of higher learning. the university is committed to teaching and research of the highest caliber, and offers exceptional liberal arts and professional education in a cross-cultural…

Education
4
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education
5
American University of Armenia Corporation

Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).

Education
6
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
7
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
8
Loma Linda University

Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…

Education
9
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
10
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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11
Lafayette College

Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…

Education
12
International College - Beirut

The mission of international college is to inspire and challenge every learner to think critically,take initiative, and contribute to the advancement of society. ic nurtures the whole child in an environment that fosters well-being and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lebanese American University; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC: $160,580 · InternationalAMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INCRene Moawad Foundation: $60,000 · InternationalRene Moawad Foundation+1 more: $2,200 · InternationalCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $114,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL …THE LOS ANGELES CEDARS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LOS ANGELES CE…Lebanese American Foundation: $94,630 · Arts & CultureLebanese American…PAX FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherPAX FOUND…ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $15,625 · OtherELLIS ISL…CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $3,800 · OtherCHILDREN'…City of Hope: $2,000 · OtherArmenian General Benevolent Union: $2,000 · OtherCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationPELE F C ALUMNI CORPORATION: $6,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: $5,000 · EducationLAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
International$222,780Health$114,000Community Improvement$100,000Arts & Culture$94,630Other$48,425Education$23,500Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC: $160,580 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $114,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CEDARS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetLebanese American Foundation: $94,630 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetRene Moawad Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $15,625 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPELE F C ALUMNI CORPORATION: $6,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $3,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLebanese Ladies Cultural Society: $2,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Jesra Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Jesra Foundation IncFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jesra Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ahmar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ahmar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ahmar Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ahmar Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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