· Private foundation
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $727k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $245,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $172,500 |
| BTSELEM | $145,000 |
| PALESTINE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY | $136,473 |
| MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINIANS | $115,000 |
| EUROPEAN LEGAL SUPPORT CENTER | $90,000 |
| 7AMLEH | $90,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $80,000 |
| AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID | $75,000 |
| GISHA | $70,000 |
| ADALAH | $53,600 |
| PALESTINIAN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $47,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST POLICY NETWORK | $45,000 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND | $40,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 60% of grant dollars ($3.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 40% that went abroad ($2.2M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 40% of all-years giving ($2.2M)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Foundation for Middle East Peace’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +149% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID7× · 2017–2023 · $217k · revenue +161%- JVJust Vision Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $117k · revenue +10%
- TMTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE5× · 2018–2022 · $110k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- NINew Israel Fund Ha'aretz Peace Confone grant, 2017 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $16k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Educate elected officials, policy-makers, and voters and advocate in congress and the executive branch for us policies that advance palestinian right and freedom.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The middle east policy council is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan eductional organization. founded in 1981, the mission of the council is to foster public discussion of the political, economic, cultural and security issues that…
Extend raises the voices of Palestinians and Israelis working for democracy and human rights.
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) that works to center advocates and experts from and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the policy discourse to foster transparent,…
Research and education of United Nations activities
ACMER is committed to promoting social welfare and improving human rights in the Middle East. ACMER aims to center American values of human rights and democracy in US Middle East foreign policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Churches for Middle East Peace and the most unlike its peers is Forward Leap Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 89 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Just Vision Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Heartland Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds Empowerment Works Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST POLICY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Salem Family Foundation Inc · Mal Bdl Charitable 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 Foundation for Middle East Peace 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.
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.
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