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.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arc of Justiceshared funders
- Kiblawi Foundationportfolio match
- Middle East Forumportfolio match
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.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Arc of Justiceshared fundersFL · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- Kiblawi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Middle East Forumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Salem Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andoni Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Merona Leadership Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Fund of Israelportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cherna Moskowitz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Middle East Peaceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saidoff Foresight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Israeli-American Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America Gives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing