· Private foundation
The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEMEDE (CENTER FOR EURO-MED DEVELOPMENT) | $2,000,000 |
| THE EPARCHY OF OUR LADY OF LEBANON OF LOS ANGELES | $2,000,000 |
| ACT FOR LEBANON | $850,000 |
| DRUG FREE LEBANON INC | $700,000 |
| EPARCHY OF SAINT MARON OF BROOKLYN | $350,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $230,000 |
| COOP CAREERS INC | $200,000 |
| LIFE GENERATION USA | $200,000 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | $165,000 |
| ATLAS NETWORK | $150,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE INC | $75,000 |
| THE DOOR | $60,000 |
| JAMHOUR ALUMNI US | $50,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 56% of grant dollars ($25M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 44% that went abroad ($19M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 44% of all-years giving ($19M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DFDRUG FREE LEBANON INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +299% · 71% of their budget
- AFACT FOR LEBANON CO FMFSB LLC3× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +500% · 41% of their budget
- LGLIFE GENERATION USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $800k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- EOEPARCH OF OUR LADY OF LEBANON OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- SJSaint Joseph University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +250% · 60% of their budget
- CCARMELone grant, 2023 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
The mission of international college is to inspire and challenge every learner to think critically,take initiative, and contribute to the advancement of society. ic nurtures the whole child in an environment that fosters well-being and…
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
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…
Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)
to educate, and to promote the advancement of human rights, minority rights, and basic democratic principles in Lebanon and the Middle East.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
The african middle eastern leadership project's mission is to mobilize, empower, and unite young leaders and activists from the middle east and africa to build resilient, inclusive societies that are free from discrimination, persecution,…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
43 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. 43 of the 87 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds DRUG FREE LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR LEBANON CO FMFSB LLC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE GENERATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JAMHOUR ALUMNI US INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds COOP Careers Inc ↗
- Who funds Saint Joseph University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Well-Being Network Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVING THE NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TFL-US INCORPORATED ↗
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- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: The Jesra Foundation Inc · The Levant Foundation · Bitar Foundation Inc · Anthony Abraham Foundation · Arab Community Center for Economic and S · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ghassan & Manal Saab Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Raymond Debbane Family 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.
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.
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