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The Jesra Foundation Inc

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.

$323k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$645kEducation$636kInternational$487kArts & Culture$206kHealth$115kReligion$62kScience & Tech$34kHuman Services$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRLEIGH DICKINGSON UNIVERSITY$56,000
SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY$50,000
TAKREEM USA$35,000
FRIENDS OF THE LEBANESE FRANCISCAN$25,000
ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY$25,000
AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON$25,000
WASHINGTON STREET HISTORICAL SOCIET$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
HOLY SPIRIT UNIVERSITY$15,000
EGATHA FOUNDATION$15,000
LIFELEBANON$10,000
COMPLETE PLAYGROUND$10,000
NATIONAL ARAB OCHESTRA$10,000
JH UNIVERSITY$5,000
MEDITATION4LEADERSHIP$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%HEART FOR LEBANON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CHILDREN OF MARY INC: $10k → 12%CENTER FOR ARAB AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY: $25k → 21%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $3k → 4%PROJECT MOTHERPATH: $5k → 15%CENTER FOR ARAB AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY: $25k → 21%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $2k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $1k → 4%THE CITYKIDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%BIOSCIENCES LEBANESE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK INC: $24k → 17%BIOSCIENCES LEBANESE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK INC: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
FL
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 7% of The Jesra Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Jesra Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$693k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
60

Total granted

$1.2M
$552k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+40%

Still filing today

73%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OF
    OPEN FUTURE INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +101%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $121k · revenue +11%
  • LA
    LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT
    one grant, 2018 · $167k
  • FD
    FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON U
    one grant, 2022 · $63k
  • UD
    UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
6
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Songs of Love Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Project Motherpath Inc. 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

55 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. 55 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT: $167,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUN…FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON U: $62,700 · OtherFAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UEGATHA FOUNDATION: $50,200 · OtherEGATHA FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITE DE MONTREALELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · OtherAFYA LEBANON RELIEF PROJECT: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LEBANESE FRANCISCAN: $25,000 · Other+48 more: $245,801 · Other+48 moreFairleigh Dickinson University: $197,052 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson Univer…LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationLEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSI…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: $99,500 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEI…LAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $73,670 · EducationLAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INCSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYLIFE GENERATION USA INC: $28,000 · Education+4 more: $11,274 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $386,053 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMEN…Save The Children Federation Inc: $120,500 · InternationalSave The Childr…Rene Moawad Foundation: $72,000 · InternationalRene Moawad Fou…AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC: $55,000 · InternationalAMERICAN TASK F…UNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalUNSTOPPABLE FOU…DIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SESOBEL INC: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…+3 more: $16,635 · InternationalOPEN FUTURE INSTITUTE: $135,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN FUTURE …TAKREEM USA INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTAKREEM USA …WASHINGTON STREET HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON S…+2 more: $3,100 · Arts & CultureARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $50,000 · Human ServicesBIOSCIENCES LEBANESE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK INC: $34,472 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF MARYINC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5,350 · Human ServicesPROJECT MOTHERPATH INC: $5,050 · Human ServicesHeart for Lebanon Foundation: $5,000 · Human ServicesSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesMEDITATION4LEADERSHIP INC: $5,000 · HealthSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 · HealthFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 · Health
Other$705,701Education$559,496Community Improvement$386,053International$334,135Arts & Culture$263,100Human Services$115,872Health$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $386,053 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $197,052 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN FUTURE INSTITUTE: $135,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $120,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAKREEM USA INC: $105,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetLEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: $99,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $73,670 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetRene Moawad Foundation: $72,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetAMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC: $55,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIOSCIENCES LEBANESE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK INC: $34,472 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLIFE GENERATION USA INC: $28,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STREET HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SESOBEL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA: $16,700 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAgape International Missions: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN OF MARYINC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSOCIAL & ECONOMIC ACTION FOR LEBANONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPLETE PLAYGROUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISPA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $6,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJAMHOUR ALUMNI US INCORPORATED: $5,154 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart for Lebanon Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDITATION4LEADERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFederal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC: $4,635 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYKIDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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 Raymond Debbane F…Ahmar Family Foundati…Ghassan & Manal Saab …Arab Community Center…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Miami Foundation …The Levant FoundationBitar Foundation IncAnthony Abraham Found…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…California Community …
The Raymond Debbane Family FoundationNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation · Ahmar Family Foundation · Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation · Arab Community Center for Economic and S · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Levant Foundation · Bitar Foundation Inc · Anthony Abraham Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · California Community 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 The Jesra Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jesra Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Voices for Children Foundation Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Hispa Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report 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 The Jesra Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Jesra Foundation Inc 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 95 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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