How much does Council of American Overseas Research Centers give?

Council of American Overseas Research Centers reported 23 itemized grants totaling $6,330,846, out of $6,808,878 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

Who are Council of American Overseas Research Centers's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: West African Research Association ($3.9M), American Institute for Maghrib Studies ($3.3M), The American Center of Research Incorporated ($1.9M).

Does Council of American Overseas Research Centers fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Council of American Overseas Research Centers?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

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.

$6.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Itemized grants FY2025: 23
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $6.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $206,274
Largest grant, FY2025: $868,182
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 23; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $5.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Council of American Overseas Research Centers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Social ScienceArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	23	$6.3M	0%
FY2024	23	$4.5M	0%
FY2023	23	$4.8M	0%
FY2022	22	$4.2M	5%
FY2021	22	$3.0M	9%
FY2020	21	$3.2M	0%
FY2019	22	$3.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

International$13MArts & Culture$3.7MSocial Science$2.3MEducation$2.2MScience & Tech$1.9M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
West African Research Association	$3,889,289	7	77%
American Institute for Maghrib Studies	$3,313,184	7	91%
The American Center of Research Incorporated	$1,928,991	7	25%
American Research Institute in Turkey	$1,873,350	7	34%
American Inst of Indian Studies	$1,778,772	7	11%
American Institute of Iranian Studies	$1,469,032	7	97%
American Institute for Yemeni Studies	$1,357,165	7	72%
American Research Center in Egypt Inc	$1,347,263	5	15%
American Institute of Pakistan Studies	$1,219,106	7	30%
Mexico-North Research Network Inc	$1,052,500	7	67%

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All grantees of Council of American Overseas Research Centers by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
West African Research Association	$3,889,289	7	77%
American Institute for Maghrib Studies	$3,313,184	7	91%
The American Center of Research Incorporated	$1,928,991	7	25%
American Research Institute in Turkey	$1,873,350	7	34%
American Inst of Indian Studies	$1,778,772	7	11%
American Institute of Iranian Studies	$1,469,032	7	97%
American Institute for Yemeni Studies	$1,357,165	7	72%
American Research Center in Egypt Inc	$1,347,263	5	15%
American Institute of Pakistan Studies	$1,219,106	7	30%
Mexico-North Research Network Inc	$1,052,500	7	67%
The American Academic Research Inst in Iraq (D/B/A Tarii)	$1,028,802	7	86%
The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies	$1,003,200	7	88%
The William Foxwell Albright Instit of Archaeological Research in Jerus	$974,690	7	19%
Palestinian American Research Center	$937,000	7	38%
American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies Inc	$878,500	7	68%
The Amer Research Inst of the South Cauc	$837,323	7	82%
The Center for Khmer Studies Inc	$781,270	7	23%
Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute	$755,964	7	57%
American Center for Mongolian Studies	$686,270	7	53%
American Institute for Indonesian Studies	$672,000	6	70%
American Institute Bangladesh Stu	$640,950	6	97%
American Research Center in Egypt	$370,341	2	n/a
Inya Burma Institute Inc	$305,747	5	52%
Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (Talim)	$178,375	2	26%
Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies	$84,056	4	n/a

Council of American Overseas Research Centers supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 19 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Council of American Overseas Research Centers

How much does Council of American Overseas Research Centers give?: Council of American Overseas Research Centers reported 23 itemized grants totaling $6,330,846, out of $6,808,878 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Council of American Overseas Research Centers fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (56%), Arts & Culture (16%), Social Science (10%).
Who are Council of American Overseas Research Centers's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: West African Research Association ($3.9M), American Institute for Maghrib Studies ($3.3M), The American Center of Research Incorporated ($1.9M).
Does Council of American Overseas Research Centers fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Council of American Overseas Research Centers?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Council of American Overseas Research Centers based?: Council of American Overseas Research Centers is based in DC.