Michigan · Private foundation
Ghassan & Manal Saab 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.
- $264k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $882k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $264k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $158k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $238k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $189k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $218k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $142k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $129k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $246k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $161,135 | 7 | 0% |
| Lebanese American University | $97,700 | 5 | 0% |
| National Arab Orchestra | $90,000 | 7 | 6% |
| American Task Force on Lebanon Inc | $77,440 | 8 | 2% |
| Takreem USA Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 6% |
| American University of Beirut | $55,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Flint Institute of Music | $40,150 | 5 | 0% |
| American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc | $36,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Ellis Island Honors Society Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lebanese for Lebanon Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($961k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation
- How much does Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation give?
- Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $263,617 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Education (18%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($161k), Lebanese American University ($98k), National Arab Orchestra ($90k).
- Does Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hagerman Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, The Jesra Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation based?
- Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation is based in MI.
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