How much does Meridian International Center give?

Meridian International Center reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,491,161, out of $1,710,470 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Meridian International Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), International (44%), Community Improvement (5%).

Who are Meridian International Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for International Understanding Through ($1.6M), Dialogue Institute Dba Journal of Ecumenical Studies ($1.4M), Northern Nevada International Center ($1.1M).

Does Meridian International Center fund new organizations?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Meridian International Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Global Ties US, World Learning Inc, Georgetown University.

Where is Meridian International Center based?

Meridian International Center is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Meridian International Center

MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER empowers the next era of diplomacy for a better future.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 13
Itemized grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $65,254
Largest grant, FY2025: $331,651
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 30; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 11
Total assets, FY2025: $35M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Meridian International Center 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

InternationalEducationOther

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	13	$1.5M	15%
FY2024	9	$1.5M	0%
FY2023	15	$2.7M	0%
FY2022	18	$1.7M	17%
FY2021	12	$440k	0%
FY2020	16	$778k	0%
FY2019	30	$1.7M	17%
FY2018	26	$1.7M	15%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.9MInternational$5.8MCommunity Improvement$646kRecreation & Sports$331kPublic Benefit$159kHuman Services$124kCivil Rights$121kReligion$112k

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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Foundation for International Understanding Through	$1,558,119	6	50%
Dialogue Institute Dba Journal of Ecumenical Studies	$1,442,190	7	52%
Northern Nevada International Center	$1,138,918	8	9%
University of Massachusetts	$1,136,968	8	n/a
Global Ties Kc Inc	$762,332	9	19%
Vermont Council on World Affairs Inc	$671,418	7	35%
Michigan State University	$544,947	4	n/a
Shippensburg University	$523,971	4	n/a
University of Texas	$509,516	3	n/a
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon	$500,149	7	11%

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All grantees of Meridian International Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Foundation for International Understanding Through	$1,558,119	6	50%
Dialogue Institute Dba Journal of Ecumenical Studies	$1,442,190	7	52%
Northern Nevada International Center	$1,138,918	8	9%
University of Massachusetts	$1,136,968	8	n/a
Global Ties Kc Inc	$762,332	9	19%
Vermont Council on World Affairs Inc	$671,418	7	35%
Michigan State University	$544,947	4	n/a
Shippensburg University	$523,971	4	n/a
University of Texas	$509,516	3	n/a
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon	$500,149	7	11%
Arizona State University	$490,847	4	n/a
Ball State University	$483,363	3	n/a
Bard College	$383,790	5	0%
Denver World Affairs Council Dba Worldde	$332,926	5	17%
International Visitors Council of Metropolitan Detroit Inc	$324,542	6	24%
World Affairs Council	$246,441	5	10%
International Visitors Center of Chicago	$242,888	2	6%
Global Ties Alabama	$211,984	6	27%
San Diego Diplomacy Council	$207,143	4	21%
Arkansas Council for International Visitors	$184,385	5	44%
Texas International Education Consortium	$182,159	4	68%
Entrepreneurs Organization	$173,287	2	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$171,772	7	n/a
Miami Council for International Visitors Inc	$164,845	3	32%
Presidential Precinct	$158,752	3	9%
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth	$157,990	3	2%
The Albuquerque Council for International Visitors	$127,785	3	35%
World Affairs Council of Kentucky S	$123,640	4	16%
International Visitors Utah Council	$121,575	5	12%
International Focus Inc	$116,336	3	17%
Study of Religions Across Civilizations Inc	$112,350	3	n/a
World Boston Inc	$109,121	3	9%
Cleveland Council on World Affairs	$96,789	2	6%
International House of Metrolina Inc	$94,937	2	10%
GlobalPittsburgh	$89,604	3	n/a
Atlas Service Corps Inc	$89,595	2	1%
Georgia Council for Intertnational	$83,153	1	n/a
3 Day Startup Inc	$79,968	2	8%
Atlantic Council of the United States Inc	$65,254	1	n/a
Worldchicago	$29,515	1	n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus	$27,594	1	n/a
Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc	$23,731	1	1%
Truman Center for National Policy	$23,500	1	n/a
University of Minnesota	$18,846	1	n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$7,162	1	0%

Meridian International Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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 30.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Global Ties USDC49.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Global Ties US · World Learning Inc · Georgetown University · International Visitors Center of Chicago · The Aspen Institute Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Meridian International Center

How much does Meridian International Center give?: Meridian International Center reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,491,161, out of $1,710,470 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Meridian International Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), International (44%), Community Improvement (5%).
Who are Meridian International Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for International Understanding Through ($1.6M), Dialogue Institute Dba Journal of Ecumenical Studies ($1.4M), Northern Nevada International Center ($1.1M).
Does Meridian International Center fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meridian International Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Global Ties US, World Learning Inc, Georgetown University.
Where is Meridian International Center based?: Meridian International Center is based in DC.