Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $900,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $900k
- Net assets
- $907k
What American Committee for Middle East Rights does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Civic Engagement - engaging closely with national civil societies, international partners and elected officials to increase the priority level of human rights with regards to Americas relationship with countries throughout the Middle East.
$243,716 spent75% of program spendingAdvocacy - generate support for the mission to promote and improve human rights in the Middle East, striving to affect change through grassroots organizing and engagement of communities, organizations, elected officials and others.
$81,238 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $324,954.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $118k to $924k (+682%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kristina Biyad
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $400k → $500k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS?
- AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $900,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $900,000 in grants to AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR MIDDLE EAST RIGHTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing