· Public charity
Meridian International Center
MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER empowers the next era of diplomacy for a better future.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $332k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH STUDENTS | $331,651 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER | $216,358 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | $194,026 |
| DIALOGUE INSTITUTE | $194,004 |
| GLOBAL TIES KC | $162,482 |
| VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS | $136,752 |
| ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE US INC | $65,254 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $54,922 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY | $37,082 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY | $36,150 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $32,680 |
| TRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY | $23,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $6,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $219k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $12k to organizations and $207k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SYMPOSIUM ON STRATEGIC SUBNATIONAL DIPLOMACY · PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT SUPPORT GRANTS
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFoundation for International Understanding Through6× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +14% · 50% of their budget
- NNNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +320%
- GTGLOBAL TIES KC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $762k · revenue +246%
Funded once
- GCGEORGIA COUNCIL FOR INTERTNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $83k · revenue +172%
- WWORLDCHICAGOone grant, 2019 · $30k
- VHVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUSone grant, 2017 · $28k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cultural exchange and home hospitality.
Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.
To promote the widest possible understanding of world affairs among the citizens of New Hampshire.
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The International Center is a District of Columbia 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1977, has as its principal purpose the promotion of greater international understanding and the lessening of international frictions and…
Boulder Council for International Visitors is a volunteer organization that is a local host organization that arranges local meetings with professionals, politicians, educators, artists and social events for up-and-coming leaders from…
Education, non-partisan, membership organization that encourages people and organizations in the region to take an interest in, to learn more about, and to participate to a greater extent in global matters.
The International Relations Council strengthens Kansas Citys global perspective by maintaining an active dialogue around world events global issues and their impact on our community. As a nonpartisan educational nonprofit organization the…
Implement international visitor programs to promote global understanding through professional development and cultural exchange.
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
To provide opportunities for foreign diplomats and Americans to share ideas and foster understanding of their respective countries' instutions, policies and cultures.
Global ties iowa coordinates people-to-people exchanges between international leaders and residents of eastern iowa's creative corridor.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Foundation for International Understanding Through ↗
- Who funds DIALOGUE INSTITUTE DBA JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TIES KC INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DENVER WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL DBA WORLDDE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL VISITORS COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds International Visitors Center of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Global Ties Alabama ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO DIPLOMACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Council for International Visitors ↗
- Who funds TEXAS INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL VISITORS INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds The Albuquerque Council for International Visitors ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Kentucky S ↗
- Who funds International Visitors Utah Council ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds International House of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds GlobalPittsburgh ↗
- Who funds Atlas Service Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA COUNCIL FOR INTERTNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds 3 DAY STARTUP INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Meridian International Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meridian International Center. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon: 0% of income from government
- Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc: 0% of income from government
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