North Carolina · Nonprofit
Heart for Lebanon Foundation
Heart for Lebanon Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,440,711 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,847,552). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Heart for Lebanon Foundation does
Mission
Driven by the compassionate heart of Jesus Christ, Heart for Lebanon exists to see lives changed and communities transformed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Heart for lebanon's mission is to share the gospel and make disciples. This is done through the following activities. Heart for lebanon provides goods and services (such as blankets, gloves, coats, hats and heaters) to individuals and families, who are required to fill out a form, but heart for lebanon also distributes basic packages of food and hygiene supplies to refugee families. Who are also required to fill out a form. Heart for lebanon provides scholarships to deserving children through the application process. Heart for lebanon also provides special camps and events throughout the year.
$8,745,137 spentof which $7,657,855 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,745,137.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $8.2M to $11M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
95% of Heart for Lebanon Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Thomas Atema
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $322k → $1.8M.
18 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Heart for Lebanon Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Heart for Lebanon Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Heart for Lebanon Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 50% · 2019 62% · 2020 68% · 2021 59% · 2022 69% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
32% of Heart for Lebanon Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
90% of Heart for Lebanon Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Heart for Lebanon Foundation's revenue grew 81% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Heart for Lebanon Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heart for Lebanon Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Heart for Lebanon Foundation?
- Heart for Lebanon Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,440,711 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,847,552). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Heart for Lebanon Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $11,440,711 in grants to Heart for Lebanon Foundation, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heart for Lebanon Foundation?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,847,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heart for Lebanon Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing