Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 335 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,258,217 to it, the largest being THE AJRAM FAMILY FOUNDATION GABY A AJRAM ($7,760,000). 151 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $176M
- Funders on record
- 335
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $46M
What American Near East Refugee Aid does
Mission
Anera addresses the development and humanitarian needs of palestinians and other communities in the middle east.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health & relief:anera delivered $134 million worth of humanitarian aid to palestine, lebanon and jordan, supporting communities in crisis. In gaza, anera provided 44.5 million meals and reached more than 1 million displaced individuals with critical aid. Water, sanitation and hygiene efforts included the delivery of 65 million liters of potable water and more than 15,000 hygiene kits. Anera also delivered 443,828 health consultations and supplied medical facilities with essential medicines and equipment. In lebanon, anera provided food and cash assistance to vulnerable families, distributed hygiene kits to 20,000 households, and delivered nearly 489,000 medical treatments, including support for patients with chronic and rare diseases. In jordan, anera supported 11,000+ individuals with food assistance and delivered more than 182,000 medical treatments through targeted medical shipments. In the west bank, anera distributed 5,272 fresh produce parcels, set up 400 water tanks and delivered hygiene kits to 34,105 families.
$150,954,320 spentof which $145,375,903 as grants93% of program spendingEducation: in lebanon, anera trained 7,408 youth through competency-based technical and life skills programs, including 172 who received advanced training, and empowered 3,000+ youth through recovery-focused initiatives that led to 200+ long-term job placements. Anera also rehabilitated schools and community facilities and awarded 20 nursing scholarships to vulnerable youth. In gaza, anera delivered 328 creative and therapeutic sessions reaching 11,455 children with psychosocial support, trained 551 teachers to integrate these approaches into classrooms, and established 44 temporary learning spaces serving 7,904 children, including children with disabilities. In jordan, anera supported 40 children through a literacy summer camp and provided 1,000 students from 250 vulnerable families with school supplies. Environmental education programs in jordan reached 4,480 students through hands-on greenhouse learning, while also training teachers and engaging community members.
$5,925,646 spentof which $3,847,601 as grants4% of program spendingCommunity deveopment:in palestine, anera supported 125 women with small business grants, including participants in gaza who produced meals for vulnerable populations during the war, and improved water access in the west bank through the distribution of 400 water tanks. In lebanon, anera supported 30 farmers through greenhouse rehabilitation and installation and established 92 rooftop gardens to improve food security. Anera mobilized a nationwide volunteer network of 26,634 individuals contributing over 70,000 hours, and provided integrated education, psychosocial, and protection support to 250 adolescent girls. Broader recovery efforts engaged 3,000 youth, resulting in over 200 job placements, while rehabilitating schools, community centers, and municipal infrastructure, expanding solar energy access, restoring water systems serving approximately 1,300 families, and delivering essential goods and services in partnership with local organizations. In jordan, anera established 83 rooftop gardens in marka and wehdat camps, equipped 125 young adults with vocational and life skillsleading to job placements and employment pathwaysand empowered 30 youth in zarqa to launch five green…
$5,351,375 spentof which $3,558,999 as grants3% of program spendingPublic education
$1,061 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,232,402.
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 2023 to 2024, from $26M to $53M (+104%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 18% · 2019 21% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID’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. 2 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
Sean Carroll
President & CEO
Board chair
Joseph Saba
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 133 funders, grant income rose $592k → $5.2M.
62 of 335 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 335 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 NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 20% · 2021 33% · 2022 34% · 2023 20% — 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
53% of AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
55% of AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 40 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M 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 NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID has grown faster than three-quarters of the 59 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.4M on record.
- Agency for International Development$41.6M
- Department of State$6.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Anera Ventures LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID?
- AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 335 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,258,217 to it, the largest being THE AJRAM FAMILY FOUNDATION GABY A AJRAM ($7,760,000). 151 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID have?
- IRS filings report 335 organizations giving $41,258,217 in grants to AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID, 151 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID?
- THE AJRAM FAMILY FOUNDATION GABY A AJRAM is the largest funder on record, with $7,760,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID 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.
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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 335 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