New York · Nonprofit
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,921 to it, the largest being Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust ($38,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $217k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc does
Programs
Publishing The Link and Pamphlets
$14,623 spentServices to Churches groups schools
$8,358 spentBooks Audiovisual and meetings
$1,146 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $39k to $98k (+152%).
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
Nicholas Griffin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $4k.
From the IRS filings of Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states 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.
Organizations like Americans for Middle East Understanding 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Americans for Middle East Understanding 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 Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc?
- Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,921 to it, the largest being Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust ($38,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,921 in grants to Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc?
- Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust is the largest funder on record, with $38,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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