· Public charity
Middle East Forum
Education regarding the middle east and islamism in the west.
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.
The 1 grants below total $50,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $254,970 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $204,970 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMERA | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $185k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH
Stated purpose: RESEARCH
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +85%
- DDAFKA3× · 2017–2019 · $112k
- RERESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -98%
- EFENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTHone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -19%
- AFAMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -34%
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 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,…
To educate the public on the truths regarding critical security risks facing America, as well as our most strategic ally, Israel. There are few quality sources dedicated to this purpose.
To educate about antisemitism and the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.
Improve us relations with israel
The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…
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…
The Center has four primary goals:(1) Promote the ongoing concept that Israels historical presence is integral and vital to modern Jewish and non-Jewish identities. (2)Provide students, educators, and life-long learners with materials and…
Educate the public on key policy issues towaeds the middle east and the peace proces through electronic media and outreach.
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy and the most unlike its peers is Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHYLLIS CHESLER ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Freedom Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SAUDI ARABIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Chevra Inc ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds Friends of Intelligence Practitioners Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Milstein Family Foundation · The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Adelson Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Middle East Forum 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, a single department, or state — 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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