Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 310 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,091,525 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,768,160). 220 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 310
- Grants received
- $197M
- Net assets
- $220M
What American Israel Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
Aief (the foundation) is the charitable organization affiliated with the american israel public affairs committee (aipac) , a non-profit organization. Aief provides financial resources to aipac consistent with the foundation's status as a charitable and educational 501(c)(3) organization, supporting educational programs including middle east research, educational materials and conferences, and leadership programs for university students, as well as sponsored trips to help educate political leaders and influentials about the importance of the united states-israel relationship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Information and education: to gather and disseminate information on issues affecting the u.s.-israel relationship. In addition, host mission trips to israel educating participants, members of congress, congressional staff, and other national leaders on the importance of the u.s.-israel relationship.
$35,248,940 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,248,940.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $133M to $162M (+22%).
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.
89% of AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Arne Christenson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 94 funders to 149 funders, grant income rose $12M → $26M.
41 of 310 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $83M from 55 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 310 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 21% · 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
61% of AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 25 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee · exempt
- Aipac-Aief Israel Ra · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: 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 ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 310 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,091,525 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,768,160). 220 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 310 organizations giving $197,091,525 in grants to AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 220 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $21,768,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 310 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing