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The Levant 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$14MHealth$6.4MInternational$1.2MReligion$673kArts & Culture$648kCommunity Improvement$502kCivil Rights$235kPhilanthropy$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $159k
  • $250k+2 grants · $984k
$58,795
Median grant
5
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$500,000
American Foundation for St George Hospital Inc$484,000
Queen Rania Foundation for Edu & Dev - USA$100,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$58,795
Individual grant recipient$38,177
Kuwait - America Foundation$25,000
UNICEF USA$12,000
Art League Houston$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Maronite Endowment of the Poor: $100k → 10%Fund for UNICEF: $59k → 17%ARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE: $125k → 20%Health Outreach to the Middle East: $100k → 8%Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $35k → 13%Greater Houston Community Foundation: $50k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $250k → 22%Georgetown University: $1.2M → 14%The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $500k → 11%ATHLOS WORLDINC: $25k → 8%American Foundation for St George Hospital Inc: $484k → 6%American friends of the bethlehem development: $500k → 7%UNICEF USA: $25k → 17%Health Outreach to the Middle East: $42k → 8%Greater Houston Community Foundation: $16k → 16%Georgetown University: $600k → 14%The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $500k → 11%UNICEF USA: $20k → 17%HEALTH OUTREACH TO THE MIDDLE EAST: $30k → 8%The Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $25k → 16%KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $500k → 11%HEALTH OUTREACH TO THE MIDDLE EAST: $25k → 8%american-arab anti-discrimination committee: $50k → 14%american-arab anti-discrimination committee: $50k → 14%american-arab anti-discrimination committee: $50k → 14%King Baudouin Foundation US Inc: $160k → 17%KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Barenboim-Said Foundation: $50k → 17%KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Social & Economic Action For Lebanon: $160k → 17%HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 16%ADC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%TEACH FOR LEBANON: $50k → 17%ADC Research Institute: $25k → 14%Life Generation USA Inc: $15k → 17%Our Lady of the Cedars Maronite Church: $35k → 16%KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%American University of Beirut: $5.4M → 17%Kuwait - America Foundation: $25k → 14%American University of Beirut: $5.0M → 17%The Saint Constantine School: $250k → 16%QUEEN RANIA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPME: $150k → 14%Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation: $2.5M → 16%Kuwait - America Foundation: $15k → 14%Queen Rania Foundation for Education & Development: $100k → 14%ACTION AGAINST HUNGER: $50k → 17%Queen Rania Foundation for Edu & Dev - USA: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
CT
CA
CO
VA
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DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 17 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$21M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+17%

Still filing today

76%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k 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
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

  • AU
    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10M · revenue +4%
  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +8%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.8M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SG
    Saint George Hospital University Medical Center
    one grant, 2022 · $963k
  • AF
    American friends of the bethlehem development
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +90%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The American University in Cairo

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…

Education
2
The American Academic Research Inst in Iraq (D/B/a Tarii)

Promotion of scholarly research on and in iraq and ancient mesopotamia. taarii raises funds for graduate and post-graduate fellowships for americans and for iraqi academics to perform research work on iraq in a broad range of disciplines.

International
3
The American College of the Mediterranean

The mission of the american college of the mediterranean is to provide excellence in international education, inspire intercultural awareness, and prepare students for success in a global community through the study of european and…

Education
4
American University of Armenia Corporation

Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).

Education
5
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
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
8
The American Center of Research Incorporated

The American Center of Research (ACOR) is a non-profit academic, education, and scientific institution, which advances understanding of Jordan and the interconnected region, past and present. We promote and support research across a broad…

Arts & Culture
9
The American University of Iraq Foundation Inc

To promote higher education in iraq based on the american liberal arts model.

Education
10
Zaytuna College Inc

Zaytuna college aims to educate and prepare morally committed professional, intellectual, and spiritual leaders, who are grounded in the islamic scholarly tradition and conversant with the cultural currents and critical ideas shaping…

Religion
11
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
12
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Childproof America. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersPublic University Foundatio…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsJewish Community FederationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Land Conservation Organizat…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Classical Music EnsemblesAsian American Advocacy & H…Muslim Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr11%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr11%58%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/32
the rest of the field
14%
8,497/58,757

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 45 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT — $10,400,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUTGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,800,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC+7 more — $805,000 · Education+7 moreTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL …Saint George Hospital University Medical Center — $962,925 · OtherSaint George Hos…American friends of the bethlehem development — $500,000 · OtherAmerican friends…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR ST GEORGE HOSPITAL INC — $484,000 · OtherAMERICAN FOUNDAT…FOUNDATION CENTRE ORTHODOXE PATRIARCAT — $327,711 · OtherFOUNDATION CENTR…M GILLES KEPEL — $231,539 · OtherM GILLES KEPELKelna Ayleh Foundation — $200,000 · OtherKelna Ayleh Foun…AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE — $165,000 · OtherARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC — $125,000 · Other+14 more — $584,435 · Other+14 moreKUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION — $215,000 · InternationalHEALTH OUTREACH TO THE MIDDLE EAST FOR CHRIST — $197,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC — $160,353 · InternationalSOCIAL & ECONOMIC ACTION FOR LEBANONINC — $160,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $67,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $50,000 · InternationalTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $205,295 · Arts & CultureBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA) — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $66,000 · PhilanthropyChildproof America — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIGHTHOUSE ALBANIA — $2,304 · Religion
Education$14,505,000Health$5,000,000Other$3,580,610International$849,353Arts & Culture$265,295Philanthropy$66,000Youth Development$10,000Religion$2,304

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT — $10,400,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,800,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN RANIA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT-USA — $250,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetTHE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL — $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION — $215,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $205,295 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH OUTREACH TO THE MIDDLE EAST FOR CHRIST — $197,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetAMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE — $165,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $160,353 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL & ECONOMIC ACTION FOR LEBANONINC — $160,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetARAB AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetADC RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $70,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $67,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $66,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA) — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON — $16,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COLLEGE - BEIRUT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSOOR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildproof America — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTrees For Houston — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ALBANIA — $2,304 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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.

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.

Arab Community Center…The Raymond Debbane F…The Jesra Foundation …The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Arab Community Center for Economic and SMI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arab Community Center for Economic and S · The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation · The Jesra Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 The Levant 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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