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Middle East Forum

Education regarding the middle east and islamism in the west.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$823kScience & Tech$124kSocial Science$105kCivil Rights$66kPublic Benefit$49kArts & Culture$20kReligion$15kEducation$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $254,970 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $204,970 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMERA$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICANS FOR PEACE & TOLERANCE: $20k → 8%CAMERA NATIONAL OFFICE: $24k → 16%NATL CHRISTIAN LDRSHP CONF: $10k → 7%NGO MONITOR: $10k → 7%THE CHEVRA INC: $20k → 22%DAFKA: $40k → 9%FRIENDS OF ELNET: $10k → 14%ISGAP: $6k → 17%AMCHA COALITION FOR JEWISH CO: $15k → 28%CENTER FOR SECURE FREE SOCIET: $28k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE: $100k → 15%IRANIAN AMERICAN FORUM: $8k → 11%REPORT INC: $25k → 12%JEWISH NEWS SERVICE: $13k → 8%CAMERA: $300k → 16%RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $10k → 7%DAFKA: $36k → 9%MID EAST CTR REPORTING & ANAL: $30k → 14%THE PHYLLIS CHESLER ORGANIZAT: $24k → 17%AMCHA: $10k → 28%CENTER FOR SECURE FREE SOCIET: $24k → 14%REPORT INC: $20k → 12%CAMERA: $151k → 16%DAFKA: $36k → 9%MID EAST CTR REPORTING & ANAL: $15k → 14%PHYLLIS CHESLER ORGANIZATION: $24k → 17%INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORI: $10k → 14%CAMERA: $50k → 16%PIPELINE NEWS LLC: $6k → 9%THE PHYLLIS CHESLER ORGANIZAT: $12k → 17%INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORI: $8k → 14%CAMERA NATIONAL OFFICE: $15k → 16%THE PHYLLIS CHESLER ORGANIZATION: $6k → 17%ENDOWMENT FOR ME TRUTH: $25k → 14%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $12k → 17%CTR FOR DEMO AND HUMAN: $12k → 14%CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $20k → 14%CTR FOR DEMO AND HUMAN: $6k → 14%CENTER FOR SECURE FREE SOCIET: $12k → 14%CTR FOR DEMO AND HUMAN: $6k → 14%CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

Middle East and North Africa$145k · 78% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$40k · 22% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$983k · 10 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$983k
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-41%
-2%

Still filing today

60%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsSocial SciencePublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +396%
  • D
    DAFKA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $112k
  • RE
    RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -98%
  • EF
    ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -19%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -34%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

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,…

International
2
American Truth Project Inc

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.

International
3
Alliance for Israel

To educate about antisemitism and the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.

Civil Rights
4
Middle East Research Center Ltd

Improve us relations with israel

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5
Friends of Institute for Zionist

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…

International
6
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
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Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
8
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Philanthropy
9
Center for Strategic Research and Communication
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Near East Media

Near east media"s mission is to provide balanced coverage of news and events, commentary and analysis impacting israel and the middle east for the evangelical world as well as the arab world both muslims and christians and the jweish world…

Human Services
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Institute for New Global Politics Inc

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…

International
12
American Jewish International Relations

The organization creates and conducts research and educational programs designed to provide accurate and up-to-date information and analyses to the american public on actions taken by the united nations that relate to american policy…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/17
Grantees still filing
6/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $540,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INCRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $65,000 · InternationalRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INCCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $42,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC+6 more: $87,500 · International+6 moreDAFKA: $112,000 · OtherDAFKAFRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIA…HEBREW INSTITUTE OF RIVERDALE: $25,000 · OtherHEBREW INSTITUTE OF RIVE…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $12,000 · Other+3 more: $19,750 · Other+3 moreTHE PHYLLIS CHESLER ORGANIZATION INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chevra Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS: $45,000 · EducationJEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $12,500 · EducationInternational Freedom Educational Foundation Inc: $52,000 · Social ScienceENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $25,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY: $6,000 · Civil Rights
International$734,500Other$268,750Arts & Culture$80,000Education$57,500Social Science$52,000Public Benefit$25,000Civil Rights$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $540,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $65,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetInternational Freedom Educational Foundation Inc: $52,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS: $45,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $42,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SAUDI ARABIA: $24,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Chevra Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNational Christian Leadership Conference for Israel: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Intelligence Practitioners Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Milstein Family F…The Irving I Moskowit…Jewish Community Fede…Adelson Family Founda…The Snider FoundationDonors Trust IncCombined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Middle East Forum funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Middle East Forum. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Middle East Forum?

    Find your warmest path to Middle East Forum through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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