· Private foundation
Nasser and Rula Watar 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKASSED FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $119,900 |
| AMERICAN LEBANESE TRIPOLIAN ORGANIZATION INC | $104,500 |
| AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC | $50,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF IRVINE INC | $22,000 |
| FEUSA INC | $15,000 |
| THE NOBLE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- MFMAKASSED FOUNDATION OF AMERICA4× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +694%
- ALAmerican Lebanese Tripolian Organization Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $536k · revenue +158% · 34% of their budget
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- GGVNGorggraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +38%
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUTone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +24%
- LLLebanese Ladies Cultural Societyone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +8%
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.
to educate, and to promote the advancement of human rights, minority rights, and basic democratic principles in Lebanon and the Middle East.
Lebanese american university is committed to academic excellence, student-centeredness, civic engagement, the advancement of scholarship, the education of the whole person, and the formation of leaders in a diverse world.
(See Schedule O)
The american lebanese policy institute (alpi) is a us-based nonprofit humanitarian organization dedicated to helping the less fortunate people in lebanon with basic needs and healthcare support by providing medicine, food, clothing,…
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
None
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
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…
To promote higher education in iraq based on the american liberal arts model.
Amel Foundation is most focused on addressing the dire situation caused by the war in Sudan and the need of Nine Million people who have been displaced as a result of the war, by providing them with food, shelter , water, and medical…
it is to unity the immigrates and give them access to education that will help them get settled and progress
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Task Force On Lebanon Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chapman University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 MAKASSED FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American Lebanese Tripolian Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds American Relief Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds FEUSA INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC CENTER OF IRVINE INC ↗
- Who funds GVNGorg ↗
- Who funds THE NOBLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds Lebanese Ladies Cultural Society ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Nasser and Rula Watar 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.
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