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SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A

SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MICHAEL AND CHRISTINE FARAH FAMILY FNDTN ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$571k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$1.0M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Southern Federation of Syrian Lebanese A does

Mission

To combine pure americanism with the traditions of syria and lebanon: strong traditions of belief in god, sense of family, love of heritage and willingness to serve each other.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Summer and winter conventions for cultural programs and scholarship presentation

    $455,960 spentof which $500 as grants$491,546 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. Periodic membership newsletter

    $12,040 spent
    3% of program spending
  3. Guardian angle fund to promote southern federation, not tax deductible

    $933 spent$10,000 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $468,933.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($100k) Net assets 100 ($467k)2018 Revenue 235 ($273k) Expenses 281 ($282k) Net assets 98 ($459k)2019 Revenue 97 ($113k) Expenses 106 ($107k) Net assets 98 ($460k)2020 Revenue 69 ($80k) Expenses 70 ($70k) Net assets 97 ($452k)2021 Revenue 184 ($214k) Expenses 130 ($130k) Net assets 128 ($597k)2022 Revenue 412 ($479k) Expenses 359 ($361k) Net assets 132 ($618k)2023 Revenue 350 ($406k) Expenses 393 ($395k) Net assets 156 ($727k)2024 Revenue 493 ($573k) Expenses 443 ($445k) Net assets 193 ($902k)2025 Revenue 492 ($571k) Expenses 472 ($474k) Net assets 218 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (492)Expenses (472)Net assets (218)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $458k to $696k (+52%).

$566k
$552k
$568k
$458k
$696k
$701k
$922k
$1.1M
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
−$9k
’18
$6k
’19
$10k
’20
$83k
’21
$118k
’22
$11k
’23
$127k
’24
$97k
’25
13
months of
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

John Jammal

Chairman of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed666666665
Joined·+1+1+1+0+2+2+2+2
No longer listed·11102223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A?
SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MICHAEL AND CHRISTINE FARAH FAMILY FNDTN ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A?
MICHAEL AND CHRISTINE FARAH FAMILY FNDTN is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF SYRIAN LEBANESE A find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 1 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