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The Mounzer Foundation for Service and Education

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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$17kArts & Culture$12kInternational$3kHealth$350Food & Nutrition$250Crime & Legal$100Education$100
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$2,150
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: 60% of grant dollars ($20k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 40% that went abroad ($13k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $50 → 17%ST LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $3k → 9%ST MARY'S ORTHODOX CHURCH: $780 → 21%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%BARCELONA SCHOOL OF ART: $5k → 7%WINDHORSE HEALING ARTS CENTER INC: $250 → 16%BLUEFIELD COLLEGE: $100 → 18%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $25 → 17%ST LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $3k → 9%ST MARY'S ORTHODOX CHURCH: $350 → 21%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $650 → 14%COPPER CREST FARM CHILDREN'S PROGRAM: $250 → 16%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOPSITAL: $25 → 17%ST LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $3k → 9%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $250 → 14%ST LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $2k → 9%ST LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $2k → 9%ST LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $1k → 9%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: 40% of all-years giving ($13k)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
Lebanon$8k · 4 grants
Spain$5k · 1 grant
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Mounzer Foundation for Service and Education’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Mounzer Foundation for Service and Educationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 40% 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 5 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$17k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+13%

Still filing today

40%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SL
    SAINT LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S ORTHODOX CHURCH
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1k
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $700

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUNZER FOUNDATION (LEBANON CHAPTER)
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • BS
    BARCELONA SCHOOL OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S CHURCH OF MEHAIDSE
    one grant, 2020 · $450
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
05the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 14 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)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $14,676 · OtherSAINT LUKE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHMOUNZER FOUNDATION (LEBANON CHAPTER): $7,012 · OtherMOUNZER FOUNDATION (LEBANON CHAPTER)BARCELONA SCHOOL OF ART: $5,001 · OtherBARCELONA SCHOOL OF ARTST MARY'S ORTHODOX CHURCH: $1,130 · Other+5 more: $1,675 · Other+5 moreTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $2,750 · InternationalTHE ROTAR…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · Crime & LegalBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY: $100 · Education
Other$29,494International$2,750Health$325Crime & Legal$100Education$100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Mounzer Foundation for Service and Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mounzer Foundation for Service and Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 14 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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