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The Cedars Foundation at a glance

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The Cedars Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$157kHuman Services$144kInternational$12k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$5,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COME BACK HOME$57,218
NAZARENE EVANGELICAL SCHOOL$39,175
Individual grant recipient$5,300
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ARABIC EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCH$500
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.

US giving: 26% of grant dollars ($81k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 74% that went abroad ($232k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%STRATEGIC RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 9%REV HALIM AWAD: $500 → 11%LYDIA SHADEED: $13k → 10%BILL SHEDID: $7k → 11%PASTER CHARLES HANKS: $1k → 20%REV RAYMOND KAFROUNY: $500 → 17%LYDIA SHADEED: $12k → 10%BILL SHEDID: $3k → 11%PASTER CHARLES HANKS: $1k → 20%LYDIA SHADEED: $11k → 10%BILL SHEDID: $2k → 11%LYDIA SHADEED: $10k → 10%REV RAMI IBRAHIM: $700 → 11%LYDIA SHADEED: $5k → 10%ARABIC CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $900 → 11%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.

Beyond the US: 74% of all-years giving ($232k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Lebanon$221k · 11 grants
Egypt$6k · 2 grants
Canada$6k · 5 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$291k · 9 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$291k
$22k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CB
    COME BACK HOME
    5× · 2020–2024 · $139k
  • NE
    NAZARENE EVANGELICAL SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $71k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2020–2024 · $51k

Funded once

  • SR
    Strategic Resources International Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • MS
    MANARA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • AC
    ARABIC CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $900
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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COME BACK HOME: $138,558 · OtherCOME BACK HOMENAZARENE EVANGELICAL SCHOOL: $71,175 · OtherNAZARENE EVANGELICAL SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $51,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,350 · Other+11 more: $28,800 · Other+11 moreStrategic Resources International Inc: $12,000 · Religion
Other$300,983Religion$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

  • Who funds Strategic Resources International Inc ↗

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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