· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of GHASSAN & MANAL SAAB FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN DRUZE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN DRUZE SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA | $31,250 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT | $25,000 |
| LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN TASK FORCE FOR LEBANON | $5,000 |
| ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| VARIOUS | $1,867 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MICHIGAN RADIO | $1,000 |
| HENRY FORD CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +145%- LALEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +28%
- ATAMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC8× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- BMBEIRUT MARATHON PEOPLE AIDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- EIELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -67%
- LFLebanese for Lebanon Foundationone grant, 2019 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
To promote higher education in iraq based on the american liberal arts model.
Education and Research
Founded in 1900, aau is composed of 71 distinguished institutions in the united states and canada that continually advance society through education, research, and discovery. our u.s. member universities earn the majority of competitively…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university of massachusetts amherst foundation leads and supports private fund raising on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the amherst campus. its volunteer board of directors provides leadership for the development of…
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…
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is Lebanese for Lebanon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds TAKREEM USA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Lebanese for Lebanon Foundation ↗
- Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SADR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hagerman Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Jesra Foundation Inc · Anna Paulina Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · The Serra Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation · Tummala Charitable Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · Arab Community Center for Economic and S · Community Foundation of Greater Flint
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.