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The Levant Foundation at a glance

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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 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, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%american-arab anti-discrimination committee: $50k → 14%The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $500k → 11%HEALTH OUTREACH TO THE MIDDLE EAST: $25k → 8%KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%King Baudouin Foundation US Inc: $160k → 17%american-arab anti-discrimination committee: $50k → 14%Barenboim-Said Foundation: $50k → 17%american-arab anti-discrimination committee: $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%American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: $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
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

MI
NY
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 45 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COLLEGE - BEIRUT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSOOR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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.

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

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 Levant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Levant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.

    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 45 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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