· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LIFE GENERATION USA | $200,000 |
| COOP CAREERS INC | $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 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $50,000 |
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: 56% of grant dollars ($25M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 44% that went abroad ($19M) is mapped below.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 44% of all-years giving ($19M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 19%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 87 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds Rene Moawad Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LEBANON RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Raymond Debbane Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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