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Council of American Overseas Research Centers

The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) is a private non-profit federation of independent overseas research centers that promotes research to advance knowledge of the world outside The United States in an era of global engagement.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$704k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$13MArts & Culture$3.7MSocial Science$2.3MEducation$2.2MScience & Tech$1.9M
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $4,471,931 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,691,717 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $219,786 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
$152,950
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
West African Research Association$704,314
American Inst for Maghrib Studies$561,149
American Inst - Pakistan Studies$325,606
American Inst - Indian Studies$305,552
American Research Inst - Turkey$228,500
American Research Center in Egypt$192,325
American Inst - Iranian Studies$185,039
Mexico North Research Network$185,000
The Academic Research Inst - Iraq$172,448
American Center - Mongolian Studies$170,936
American Institute - Yemeni Studies$167,315
American Inst - Bangladesh Studies$152,950
Center for Khmer Studies CKS$150,072
WF Albright Inst - Archaeological$150,000
American Center - Oriental Research$140,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Inst for Maghrib Studies: $575k → 15%American Inst - Sri Lankan Studies: $160k → 8%West African Research Association: $704k → 16%AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY: $368k → 22%Center for Khmer Studies CKS: $150k → 17%PALESTINIAN AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER: $146k → 14%American Inst - Pakistan Studies: $326k → 10%AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SOUTH CAUCASUS: $235k → 19%American Inst - Indian Studies: $306k → 14%American Center - Oriental Research: $424k → 9%American Inst for Maghrib Studies: $561k → 15%WEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $498k → 16%AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY: $286k → 22%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PAKISTAN STUDIES: $170k → 10%Research Inst - South Caucasus: $217k → 19%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES: $285k → 14%American Research Center in Egypt: $321k → 9%AMERICAN CENTER FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES: $514k → 15%West African Research Association: $482k → 16%American Research Inst - Turkey: $277k → 22%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PAKISTAN STUDIES: $164k → 10%American Inst - Indian Studies: $275k → 14%AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT: $295k → 9%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES: $507k → 15%WEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $475k → 16%American Research Inst - Turkey: $229k → 22%American Inst - Pakistan Studies: $162k → 10%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES: $243k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR ORIENTAL RESEARCH: $248k → 9%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES: $302k → 15%WEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $454k → 16%AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY: $183k → 22%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES: $188k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR ORIENTAL RESEARCH: $238k → 9%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES: $275k → 15%WEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $407k → 16%AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY: $175k → 22%American Research Center in Egypt: $192k → 9%AMERICAN CENTER FOR ORIENTAL RESEARCH: $232k → 16%American Center - Mongolian Studies: $171k → 22%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF IRANIAN STUDIES: $212k → 17%AMERICAN CENTER FOR ORIENTAL RESEARCH: $184k → 16%American Inst - Iranian Studies: $185k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AFGHANISTAN STUDIES: $183k → 16%American Inst - Iranian Studies: $161k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF IRANIAN STUDIES: $148k → 17%WF ALBRIGHT INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH: $208k → 22%WF Albright Inst - Archaeological: $150k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
VA
AZ
DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 25 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
0

Total granted

$23M
$0

Still filing today

92%
0%

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
InternationalSocial ScienceArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • AI
    AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +12% · 91% of their budget
  • AR
    AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +83% · 34% of their budget
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN CENTER OF RESEARCH INCORPORATED
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +80%

Funded once

    Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Your field

    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.

    1
    Amir Institute
    Human Services
    2
    International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute
    Education
    3
    Institute of Eastern Mediterranean Studies Corp
    Education
    4
    Mesoamerican Research Foundation
    Social Science
    5
    Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
    —
    6
    Kallir Research Institute
    Philanthropy
    7
    Center for Advanced China Research
    —
    8
    Assn for the Study of Language in Prehistory Inc
    Arts & Culture
    9
    American Society of Overseas Research

    Asor, founded in 1900, is an international organization whose mission is to initiate, encourage, and support research into, and public understanding of, the history and cultures of the near east and wider mediterranean, from the earliest…

    Social Science
    10
    International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England
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    11
    Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

    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,…

    International
    12
    American Friends of the International Foundation Mozarteum
    International

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Inst of Indian Studies and the most unlike its peers is Mexico-North Research Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

    04the grantee network

    23 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. 23 of the 25 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.

    18
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    12
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    23/23
    Grantees still filing
    19/23
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    WEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $3,021,107 · InternationalWEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES — $2,733,653 · InternationalAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIESMEXICO-NORTH RESEARCH NETWORK INC — $966,500 · InternationalMEXICO-NORTH RESEARCH NETWORK INCAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF IRANIAN STUDIES — $927,959 · InternationalAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF IRANIAN STUDIESTHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII) — $867,085 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII…THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AFGHANISTAN STUDIES — $817,200 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AFGHANISTAN STUDIESPALESTINIAN AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER — $636,316 · InternationalPALESTINIAN AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTERThe Amer Research Inst of the South Cauc — $632,383 · InternationalThe Amer Research Inst of the South CaucAMERICAN INSTITUTE BANGLADESH STU — $479,950 · InternationalAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR INDONESIAN STUDIES — $445,000 · InternationalAMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY — $1,518,350 · Social ScienceAMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE …AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES — $1,393,253 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUD…AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR YEMENI STUDIES — $1,316,121 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR YEMEN…AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT INC — $931,450 · Social ScienceAMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN …American Center for Mongolian Studies — $538,801 · Social ScienceAmerican Center for Mongolia…THE AMERICAN CENTER OF RESEARCH INCORPORATED — $1,465,991 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN …CYPRUS AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $622,964 · Arts & CultureCYPRUS AMERIC…THE CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES INC — $574,996 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FO…TANGIER AMERICAN LEGATION INSTITUTE FOR MOROCCAN STUDIES (TALIM) — $178,375 · Arts & CultureTANGIER AMERI…AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PAKISTAN STUDIES — $986,106 · OtherAMERICAN I…THE WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT INSTIT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN JERUS — $788,690 · OtherTHE WILLIA…AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT — $370,341 · OtherAMERICAN R…+1 more — $70,456 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF SRI LANKAN STUDIES INC — $583,500 · EducationINYA BURMA INSTITUTE INC — $165,747 · Education
    International$11,527,153Social Science$5,697,975Arts & Culture$2,842,326Other$2,215,593Education$749,247

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $3,021,107 over 6y, 77% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES — $2,733,653 over 6y, 91% of budgetAMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY — $1,518,350 over 6y, 34% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CENTER OF RESEARCH INCORPORATED — $1,465,991 over 6y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES — $1,393,253 over 6y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR YEMENI STUDIES — $1,316,121 over 6y, 72% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PAKISTAN STUDIES — $986,106 over 6y, 30% of budgetMEXICO-NORTH RESEARCH NETWORK INC — $966,500 over 6y, 67% of budgetAMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT INC — $931,450 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF IRANIAN STUDIES — $927,959 over 6y, 90% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INST IN IRAQ (D/B/A TARII) — $867,085 over 6y, 86% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AFGHANISTAN STUDIES — $817,200 over 6y, 88% of budgetTHE WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT INSTIT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN JERUS — $788,690 over 6y, 19% of budgetPALESTINIAN AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER — $636,316 over 6y, 38% of budgetThe Amer Research Inst of the South Cauc — $632,383 over 6y, 82% of budgetCYPRUS AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $622,964 over 6y, 57% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF SRI LANKAN STUDIES INC — $583,500 over 6y, 68% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES INC — $574,996 over 6y, 23% of budgetAmerican Center for Mongolian Studies — $538,801 over 6y, 53% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE BANGLADESH STU — $479,950 over 5y, 97% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR INDONESIAN STUDIES — $445,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetTANGIER AMERICAN LEGATION INSTITUTE FOR MOROCCAN STUDIES (TALIM) — $178,375 over 2y, 26% of budgetINYA BURMA INSTITUTE INC — $165,747 over 4y, 51% of budget
    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.

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

    Amazonsmile Foundation
    Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Council of American Overseas Research Centers 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.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
    • West African Research Association — 13% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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